A Quote by William Shakespeare

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Begins Ceremony Decay Enforced Love Uses

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.

William Shakespeare

Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

Daniel Levitin

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Montesquieu

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Baron de Montesquieu

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

Lee Greenwood

When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.

Diadochos of Photiki

What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.

Stephen Mitchell

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

Robert A. Heinlein

Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.

Dally Messenger

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

Fiorello H. La Guardia

It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.

Terence McKenna

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.