Cease Quote by Aldous Huxley Download Open image “Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.” — Aldous Huxley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cease Solemn
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings, by which the farmer expresses a sense of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Because of Christ's prevenient and unconditional invitation, the fellowship of the table cannot be restricted to people who are 'faithful to the church', or to the 'inner circle' of the community. For it is not the feast of the particularly righteous, of the people who think that they are particularly devout; it is the feast of the weary and heavy-laden,… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now proposed. Land on the top of Skiddaw and walk for a couple of hours in the heather. “Alone with you, Lenina.” “But, Bernard, we shall be alone all night.” Bernard blushed and looked away. “I meant,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds. — Nicholas Roerich Copy Share Image
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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