Vow quotes
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
I'm taking a vow not to advise.
-- Barbara Bush -
how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.
-- Elinor Glyn -
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck -
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With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.
-- Francis Quarles -
To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.
-- George Colman the Elder -
Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.
-- George R. R. Martin -
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The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
-- George Sand -
What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?
-- Jane Yolen -
New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.
-- John Dryden -
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
-- Joycelyn Elders -
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I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?
-- Karen Hawkins -
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
-- Lord Kelvin -
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
-- Marlene Dietrich -
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To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.
-- Mike Mason -
I took a vow of political celibacy.
-- Mitch Daniels -
I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?
-- Pierre Loti -
The word of God is my vow.
-- Pittacus Lore -
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If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.
-- Pope Innocent III -
Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.
-- Rumi -
I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste?
-- C. J. Anderson -
Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.
-- Roger L'Estrange -
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The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
-- Beatrice Lillie
