Ceremony Quotes - Page 2

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.
United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
Mr. William Wycherley, Mr. John Crown, Colley Cibber “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.”
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.169, Classic Books Company
How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.478, Simon and Schuster
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.50, Scholastic Inc.
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.53, Courier Corporation
Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.236, The Overlook Press
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
"Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791 - 1834.
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.38, Random House
Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.161, Ballantine Books