Top 51 Quotes For Marriage Vows
#1. Marriage is meant to keep people together not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That's why we take marriage vows - not wishes
Ngina Otiende
#2. It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass.
Rachel Caine
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Easy, Sage, you have no idea. I just agreed to betray my marriage vows, my husband, and my beating heart.
N.D. Jones
#6. Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows.
Heather Day Gilbert
#7. 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
#8. (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
#9. Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace
Ezra Taft Benson
#10. Why is she so stubborn? And disobedient?" Cameron barked a laugh. "Because Mackenzies always choose headstrong women. You didn't really expect her to obey you, did you? No matter what the marriage vows say?
Jennifer Ashley
#11. What most couples fail to realize is that marriage vows denote change.
Elona Washington
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.
Sam Ewing
#15. Marriage vows contain the words "to have and to hold," not "to have and to scold.
Tracy Kunzler
#16. But he knew full well that marriage vows were not a guarantee, nor a promise, of everlasting happiness.
Kristen Callihan
#17. How is it you've never married?" A soft splash. "It's an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return to bed at night without having recited marriage vows. After several years, I have the trick of it down.
Tessa Dare
#18. May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
Rumi
#19. The secret to a long and loving marriage is to choose, everyday, to be married.
Jacqueline Patricks
#20. 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
#21. A happy marriage is a personal choice. The same way you decide to GET married? It's the same way you decide to STAY happily married!
Ngina Otiende
#22. Love is scary! Taking a vow to love someone through sickness and health, for richer for poorer, forsaking all others, until death do us part, is the most terrifying experience a person can have. Why pretend any differently?
Elin Hilderbrand
#23. 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
#24. From this day forward, you will be my sun at dawn and my stars at night, and I vow to love and cherish you for all our days.
Marissa Meyer
#26. 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
#27. The inscription in your wedding band says 'forever,' Callie. And it means forever. I'll love you until I close my eyes for the last time. And even afterward, I'll love you.
Diana Palmer
#28. 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
#29. This woman comes of her own free will out of love for this man. And with the support and love of her family.
Tracy Solheim
#30. Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.
Myles Munroe
#31. Guess it's high time we add the 8th vow in marriage promising that we shall spend time with our husband or wife more than with social networking sites!
Manasa Rao
#32. You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#33. Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.
Diana Gabaldon
#34. 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
#35. As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.
Anthony Liccione
#37. Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?
Jodi Picoult
#38. Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don't support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.
David Cameron
#39. I had worn that gold ring for nearly thirty years; token of vows taken, forsaken, renewed, and at last absolved. A token of marriage, of family; of a large part of my life. And the last trace of Frank - whom, in spite of everything, I had loved. Jamie
Diana Gabaldon
#40. Nothing can be more beautiful than the one you love on earth except yourself.
Auliq Ice
#41. Do You Believe
Do you believe
that I have loved you
since the dawn of time?
Do you believe
that we were destined
to be intertwined? ...
Muse
#42. He knew taht many of his compatriots avoided marriage at all costs. They saw matrimony as an annoyance, a wife as another person who would nag and prod. But when he repeated his vows, he heard "as long as we both shall life" and he hoped.
Courtney Milan
#43. The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.
Leigh Bardugo
#44. 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
#45. Do You Believe
... on this road of life
on this day
I take you
now husband and wife ...
Muse
#46. The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh.
Christopher West
#47. When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.
Brad Paisley
#48. With all the strength; Love encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith and acceptance of whom you love.
Auliq Ice
#49. You are the husband of my heart, and the love of my life. Wherever I am, whatever I do, you are joined with me and I with you. The part of me that matters will live with you forever. I accept the chain that binds us with joy, because in this unity I have known the purest freedom.
Madeline Hunter
#50. The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
George Sand
#51. 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
