Closing Ceremony

Famous quotes containing the words closing and/or ceremony:

    “From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony
    This universal Frame began:
    From Harmony to Harmony
    Through all the Compass of the Notes it ran,
    The Diapason closing full in Man.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)