Quotes About Tradition

Getting married is also called tying the knot but wondering why it looks like a noose around the neck of the man only.

He who dances on his wedding day has lost all his senses.

History may change, but the facts of the proverbs don't.

Mother-in-laws often go the place of worship to gossip against their daughter-in-laws and the daughter-in-laws often organise a kitty bash to orally lash out own ire against their mother-in-laws.

Often it has been seen that it is not the man but the woman, in the form of either mother or mother-in-law , who does not want to have the birth of a female child in the house.

The real reason as why woman never proposes first is that she takes a sadistic pleasure to make man go weak on his knees to bend, bow and beg before her.

There is big, solid reason hidden in the history books as why our ancestors used to keep the face of women in veiled condition.

Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

Matar padre dá um azar danado. Sobretudo para o padre.

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they fill the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.—Barbara Bloom

You absorb a lot of tradition in and around the kitchen simply by being exposed to how someone else performs tasks, and by replicating those techniques you are in essence maintaining a tradition of sorts.

On the one hand, I don't know a single person who says, "Yay! Purim is my favorite holiday!" On the other hand, if there's any holiday concept more Jewish than "Here's the awful story of what happened to your great-great-grandmother. Have a cookie." I don't know what it is.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil! Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

I do come from a strong family.

Perhaps the most bizarre couvade ritual I've come across is one that enabled dads-to-be to literally share the pain of childbirth. Apparently, the Huichol people of Mexico used to position the dad in a tree or on the roof above his laboring wife. Ropes were tied around his testicles and with each contraction she could yank on the ropes and give her husband a taste of what she was going through. Seems a little much to me, but I'm sure there are plenty of women who would disagree.

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Tradition is here nothing but a bulwark against the all too violently approaching storms of unfamiliar, an element which is felt to be a principle of life but also of destruction. It is impossible to understand mannerism if one does not grasp the fact that its imitation of classical models is an escape from the threatening chaos, and that the subjective over-straining of its forms is the expression of the fear that form might fail the struggle with life and art fade into soul-less beauty.

Aristocracy in general does not favour individualism; it bases its claim to privilege upon virtues which are common to the whole class or at least to whole clans.

On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game