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Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. — Marlene Dietrich

Vows, like wishes, are dangerous things. Precision matters. — Karen Marie Moning

Easy, Sage, you have no idea. I just agreed to betray my marriage vows, my husband, and my beating heart. — N.D. Jones

Someday, down the line, I'm going to marry you by that lighthouse. We'll just renew our vows or something, I tell her. — Tara Sivec

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms. — Joycelyn Elders

That's why you shouldn't make vows. The moment you do, fate starts conspiring to shove them down your throat. — Michael J. Sullivan

Some were bound to me by vows and some by blood, but they were all my brothers. — George R R Martin

The secret to a long and loving marriage is to choose, everyday, to be married. — Jacqueline Patricks

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161) — Richard Paul Evans

Shanna, my love, the bargain is fulfilled. But what, then, of the vows we exchanged? — Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

May these vows and this marriage be blessed. — Rumi

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass. — Rachel Caine

I had to see you this night. One more time before I say my vows tomorrow. Once spoken, I'll never break them. I'd not betray my wife or my clan. — Maya Banks

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

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind. — George R R Martin

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. — George William Curtis

She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace — Ezra Taft Benson

So much for vows. Words are wind, — George R R Martin

Turning down the Lakers was tough, but it is always good to renew your vows to the loves of your life. — Mike Krzyzewski

Do You Believe
... on this road of life
on this day
I take you
now husband and wife ... — Muse

What kinda vows? Celibacy? I thought, though I didn't say it. Nobody keeps a celibacy vow anyway. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. — William Penn

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

Vows begin when hope dies. — Leonardo Da Vinci

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men. — Robert Browning

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance. — Mahatma Gandhi

The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true. — Leigh Bardugo

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

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

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

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much. — Ben Jonson

Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows. — Heather Day Gilbert

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god. — Voltaire

I took your name when I took those vows
I meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now. — The Band Perry

I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer. — Michael Schiavo

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

I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them. — Dean Koontz

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge. — Francis Quarles

What most couples fail to realize is that marriage vows denote change. — Elona Washington

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. — Sam Kinison

Speech' is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats). — Dada Bhagwan

Riotous madness,
To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,
Which break themselves in swearing! — William Shakespeare

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. — J. Paul Getty

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time. — Maria Edgeworth

Vows of friendship and love are stronger, — Cassandra Clare

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

I promise to share all my worldly goods-including letters, parcels and other items of correspondence, opened or unopened. — Alexander McCall Smith

I never cheated on my wife. I took seriously those vows of celibacy. — Emo Philips

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream. — Catullus

(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

Men's vows are women's traitors! — William Shakespeare

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. — William Shakespeare

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon. — Mahatma Gandhi

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution. — Mahatma Gandhi

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract. — Beatrice Lillie

The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story. — Anthony Liccione

Marriage vows contain the words "to have and to hold," not "to have and to scold. — Tracy Kunzler

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

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. — George Sand

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

Why?" he asked Pate. "What am I to them?"
"A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said. — George R R Martin

As they walked away, hand in hand, they vowed to be together forever, not knowing that forever always ended. — Cristiane Serruya

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe

But vows seemed ridiculous -- it was hard enough to keep appointments. — Carrie Fisher

If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time. — Karen Marie Moning

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love. — Timothy Keller

Till the stars grow old and our sun grows cold? Will you fight for us, lie for us, love us - and let us love you? — Robert A. Heinlein

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. — Thomas Fuller

Honey, if you got yourself a man who's willing to pay court to you even after the vows are spoke, you got yourself a treasure, not a problem. — Karen Witemeyer

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise. — Brad Paisley

To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation — William Shakespeare

I only know that I am now a priestess of Satan trying to maintain after a freak-out to test how free everybody was and to take our vows. — Beatrice Sparks

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Rule #1 in all bridal magazines. Give yourself a year to plan the
perfect wedding. — Jillian Dodd

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break. — John Dryden

I don't have diamonds or solitaires now, but with this water of the pool and this bottle of beer, I vow before you to love you forever. — Parul Wadhwa

The vows you make to yourself are the only ones that truly matter. — Ioana-Cristina Casapu

When their kiss sealed their vows, April's heart swell, and she thought it couldn't hold all the love she felt at this moment. — Maggie Brendan

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the
gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy,
wise counsel. — Sallust

Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family. — Nicholas Sparks

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself. — Annie Dillard

I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others. — Vincent De Paul

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

Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure. — Mercedes Lackey

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

But some vows are made for good reason, and some are made for pride. — Christina Dodd

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Nothing can be more beautiful than the one you love on earth except yourself. — Auliq Ice

Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? — Jodi Picoult

I am falser than vows made in wine. — William Shakespeare

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'. — Sam Ewing

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

No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed. — Leonard Cohen

What's our baggage? Only vows,
Happiness, and all our care,
And the flower that sweetly shows
Nestling lightly in your hair. — Victor Hugo

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