Community Quote by Rick Owens

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand…

— Lord Chesterfield

“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

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

— Confucius

“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

Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony),…

— Dally Messenger

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

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

“Rituals bring people together, allowing them to focus on what is important and to acknowledge significant events or accomplishments.”

— Luis Gonçalves

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

Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors…

— Starhawk