Quotes About Commitment

Oaths are only mere weak things of honor compared to the benefits we give to others, which are things of the spirit; let us once save another, and we are his for life.

Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run--if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.

thinking of giving up is probably the one thing that's kept me going. I think about it on a daily basis but always come up against the problem of what to do when I've given up. Give up one thing and you're immediately obliged to do something else. The only way to give up totally is to kill yourself but that one act requires an assertion of will equal to the total amount that would be expanded in the rest of a normal lifetime.

The man who has no wife is no cuckold.

I'll die for stifled love, by all that's true.

people have managed to marry without arithmetic

Chese now, quod she, oon of thise thynges tweye: To han me foul and old til that I deye, And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf, And nevere yow displese in al my lyf, Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair, And take youre aventure of the repair That shal be to youre hous by cause of me, Or in som oother place, may wel be. Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.

I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.

A man's no cuckold if he has no wife.

Even so, Churchill's path was well-nigh unique in deserting one party for another and then deserting back again.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The man or woman who feels strong enough for two, seeks for every other quality in a partner than strength.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

I know how many lives any move of mine will cost; and if the move is worth the cost I make it and pay the cost. But Joan never counts the cost at all:

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.

I want to be all used up when I die.

There is no magic in marriage. If there were, married couples would never desire to seperate. But they do.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as "biting off more than they can chew.

O matrimónio não é a loteria. Na loteria algumas vezes ganha-se.

Bridegroom! What a word! It makes a man realize his position, somehow.