Abandon Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and…

— John Selden

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

— Charles Lamb

When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

— Cormac McCarthy

An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

— Alfred Edersheim

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

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful…

— Michel de Montaigne

“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

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

— Rob Lowe

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly…

— Amy Vanderbilt

“The purpose of any ceremony is to build stronger relationship or bridge the distance between our cosmos and us. The research that we do…

— Shawn Wilson

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact…

— Eamon de Valera