Top 100 Quotes About Vows
#1. In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.
Godfrey Reggio
#2. When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#3. If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.
Steve Erickson
#4. When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.
Brad Paisley
#5. I don't want you back because you feel obligated to me, love," he said. "That's the devil of wedding vows - they make you do things for a person you maybe should run away from. Come back to me because you want to, not because you think you ought to. Do you understand?
Jennifer Ashley
#6. I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.
Jill McCorkle
#7. It was the most traditional wedding ring in the world. It reeked of stability and fiftieth wedding anniversaries. It proclaimed itself to the world as the rock upon which vows were never broken. It was a testament of his love. Proof of his commitment.
Tara Janzen
#9. Both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever.
Kristin Hannah
#10. All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
Samuel Johnson
#11. That's why you shouldn't make vows. The moment you do, fate starts conspiring to shove them down your throat.
Michael J. Sullivan
#12. Why?" he asked Pate. "What am I to them?"
"A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said.
George R R Martin
#13. Friendships were tricky things, especially friendships as old as theirs was. Nudity was nothing more than a collection of hard-earned scars and marks. Love was a given, uncomplicated by sex or vows, but honesty was always waiting there, ready to capsize the steady boat.
Emma Straub
#14. I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'
Brendon Urie
#15. Vows are powerful things," he said. "They set things in motion.
John C. Wright
#16. If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me
Either both or none.
William Shakespeare
#17. There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than from spades.
G.K. Chesterton
#18. Really? Because I recall you asking the Elvis impersonator at your Vegas wedding if he could add a line to Jenny's vows that said, 'I promise to always give blow jobs with a smile on my face and love in my heart,
Tara Sivec
#19. Even when we were standing in the church and I was getting ready to take my vows, I can remember wishing that you were standing there, instead of him. Because I not only still loved you, but loved you beyond measure.
Nicholas Sparks
#20. I don't make vows I don't intend to keep. Will you bind yourself to me tonight? Will you be my wife?
Ellen Connor
#21. Love's night and a lamp
Judged our vows:
That she would love me ever
And I should never leave her.
Love's night and you, lamp,
Witnessed the pact.
Today the vow runs:
"Oaths such as these, waterwords."
Tonight, lamp,
Witness her lying
- In other arms.
Meleager
#22. Gideon brought into my life. The acceptance and the love. The safety. Gideon had given me my freedom back, a life without terror. Giving him vows in return was too simple a repayment for that.
Sylvia Day
#23. A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.
Myles Munroe
#24. A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.
Brenda Perlin
#26. It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#27. As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
Jessica Valenti
#28. Everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows.
Barry Hughart
#29. May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
Rumi
#30. The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
Akiva Ben Joseph
#31. Most grandiose gestures are suspect - the couple who renew their vows just before divorce or the politician who publicly swears he's clean, then enters rehab. Building
Chris Offutt
#32. It is in the very nature of conjugal love to be definitive. The lasting union expressed by the marriage vows is more than a formality or a traditional formula; it is rooted in the natural inclinations of the human person. For believers, it is also a covenant before God that calls for fidelity.
Pope Francis
#33. Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
Miguel De Cervantes
#34. Speech' is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats).
Dada Bhagwan
#35. But, I knew I didn't believe in
divorce. You couldn't make vows and just break them. If I married a woman, I was going to stay married. I wouldn't treat marriage like a lease. Ever.
Tarryn Fisher
#36. Caleb looks into my eyes as he repeats our vows. His own eyes moisten and it's enough to send a tear falling down my own cheek.
Kristen Proby
#37. I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Orison Swett Marden
#38. You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Pope John Paul II
#39. White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#40. I will always protect you, Dylan. We might not be married yet, but I said my vows to you a long time ago.
J. Daniels
#41. Ned Stark kept his vows. He thought of the promises he'd made Lyanna as she lay dying, and the price he'd paid to keep them.
George R R Martin
#42. What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#43. Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
John Milton
#44. What kinda vows? Celibacy? I thought, though I didn't say it. Nobody keeps a celibacy vow anyway.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#45. To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems
Pope John XXIII
#46. When the vows were said and the rings were on, the officiant pronounced us husband and wife. I drew Sydney to me and kissed her, full of love and life and the happiness of what we had in store for us.
Richelle Mead
#47. But some vows are made for good reason, and some are made for pride.
Christina Dodd
#48. Well, even if she does get her way, we can keep it small. Just us. Emmett can get a clerical license off the Internet."
I giggled. " That does sound better." It wouldn't feel very official if Emmett read the vows, which was a plus. But I'd have a hard time keeping a straight face.
Stephenie Meyer
#49. There should be friendship vows. Did you ever think that? When you get married, you promise all that stuff - in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer... But you do that when you're friends, too, don't you? The thick and thin stuff.
Elizabeth Noble
#51. NUMBERS 30:2 If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Anonymous
#52. It is merely the egoism of men, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love. Can you deny that our Christina world is rotting?
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#53. She still lives in a world in which people are faithful and vows of love are forever.
Paulo Coelho
#54. You have no right to act on your own! You have taken vows, obedience being one! You answer to us! You have no right to step outside the church!
John Patrick Shanley
#55. Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,
Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,
Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.
William Shakespeare
#56. O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.
William Shakespeare
#57. Thinking of the anguish of his final days and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done, everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you're going to sleep, the ones you've already forgotten by the time you wake up.
Khaled Hosseini
#58. I have loved you with all my life, and you've agreed to be my loving wife. Now I'll forever cherish our vows in my heart,In sickness and in health, till death do us part.
Alon Calinao Dy
#59. The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. Mandy swears that barely a day goes by that he isn't asked by someone, somewhere, to recite Inigo Montoya's most famous words, in which he vows vengeance on behalf of his father. "And I never let them down," he says.
Cary Elwes
#61. His own parents, the estimable Gilchrists, a couple who had taken the 'till death' part of their own wedding vows so seriously he wouldn't be surprised if they one day throttled one another, had naturally wangled the next best seat in the house: row two, on the aisle.
Ally Blake
#62. Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory
#63. New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.
John Dryden
#64. You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write.
I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.
Donna Boyd
#65. What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.
America Ferrera
#66. I'll do this to you till there's something to take the place of your vows - until you see the two of us together as your religion. (Garreth)
Kresley Cole
#67. Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths.
William Shakespeare
#69. Easy, Sage, you have no idea. I just agreed to betray my marriage vows, my husband, and my beating heart.
N.D. Jones
#70. They were both so young and both so sure that life would work out exactly as they hoped. Well, already plans and vows lay shattered across the floor. Could they not see that?
Sara Douglass
#71. Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows.
Heather Day Gilbert
#72. Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
Voltaire
#73. He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.
Cassandra Clare
#74. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
Anna Quindlen
#75. Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard they make no battery.
William Shakespeare
#76. I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed.
Michelle Franklin
#77. Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.
Timothy Keller
#78. A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady's favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword.
Maybe the sword's are prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead.
George R R Martin
#79. If you don't want vows to materialize in your next life; don't take them!
Lizelle DuPlessis
#80. To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation
William Shakespeare
#81. Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
Christopher Buckley
#82. It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
Carolyn Wheat
#83. (On Dickens) No other writer is quite as good at making marriage vows about remaining together "till death us do part" sound more like a suicide pact.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
#85. Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?
James Hogg
#86. It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
William Shakespeare
#88. The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers.
John Buchan
#89. Sam, I want that to be us. I want to stand up in church in front of our family and friends and make you my wife. I want them to listen to me say my vows to you and watch me slide my ring on your finger. I want them to see you wear my mark. I want to marry you, Sam.
P.J. Fiala
#90. You're a Centurion," Ty said. "You have vows - " "Vows of friendship and love are stronger," said Diego. Drusilla
Cassandra Clare
#91. It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.
Matthew Henry
#92. Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
Alice Hoffman
#93. What most couples fail to realize is that marriage vows denote change.
Elona Washington
#94. To her core, she suddenly knew she was not prepared to die at the hands of this worm. She had a betrothal ball to attend, wedding vows to declare, and a good man to love.
Catherine LaRoche
#95. Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.
Mercedes Lackey
#96. It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.
Demi Moore
#97. That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us.
Michael Cunningham
#98. Have you given any thought to your wedding vows?" Kai snorted.
"Delete anything that has to do with love, respect, or joy, and I'll sign on the dotted line.
Marissa Meyer
#99. The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
Beatrice Lillie
#100. And no matter how romantic and beautiful Greece was, I wasn't going to break my vows to Henry, even if they technically didn't apply for the next six months. I loved him no matter which season it was.
Aimee Carter
