Quotes About Tradition

I love going to weddings.

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.

I actually performed at an orthodox Jewish wedding, where the men were separated from the women, but they both came together to not enjoy what I was talking about.

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Culture is coded wisdom

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.