Quotes with ceremonies

  • Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
  • We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

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  • Oliver Goldsmith Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Boy George Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
    The London Evening Standard, 20 February 2006:
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bob Dylan In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Amy Vanderbilt We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • Abraham Cowley What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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