Cause and effect Quote by Bernard Wolfe Limbo

Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and…

— Charles Lamb

“ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a…

— Lord Chesterfield

“It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.

— Scott Cunningham

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

— Ken Kesey

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do…

— Amy Vanderbilt

“Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect.”

— Del Suggs

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

— Mervyn Peake

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield