A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other...… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Well, there aren’t any graves in mundane wedding ceremonies,” said Tessa. “Though your ability to quote the Bible is impressive. Better than… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when… — Ariane Mnouchkine Copy Share Image
We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Anytime someone uses one of my songs for anything - a ceremony or a sacred moment - that, to me, is a… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
