“The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. — David Antin Copy Share Image
An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract. — Beatrice Lillie Copy Share Image
Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers. — Elliott Masie Copy Share Image
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte… — Patsy Kensit Copy Share Image
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions. — Brad Sherman Copy Share Image
New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us… — Peter Canisius Copy Share Image
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that… — Danny Boyle 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
Ranger cradled my face in his hands, using his thumbs to wipe the tears from my eyes. "The ceremony is over. Can… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place. — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
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