quotes about Vow
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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 GlynSource : Elinor Glyn (1907). “Three Weeks”
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What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.
-- Fitz-Greene HalleckSource : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1848). “The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings, from Drawings by American Artists”, p.88
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With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.
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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 ElderSource : David Garrick, George Colman, the elder (1995). “The Clandestine Marriage”, p.46, Broadview Press
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Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.
-- George R. R. MartinSource : George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.536, Bantam
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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 HawkinsSource : Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
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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 DietrichSource : Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.119, Open Road Media
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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 MasonSource : Mike Mason (1985). “Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle”, Multnomah
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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 -
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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.
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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