Ceremony

(159 votes)   It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(158 votes)   A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(129 votes)   Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(126 votes)   Ceremony is the smoke of friendship.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(100 votes)   Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.

F. Gonzalez-Crussi

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