Quotes About Vows

It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

With this ring I thee wed with my body I thee worship and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

She told me, 'I said for better or worse, Dick, but I never said for lunch.

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

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.

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.

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

Today's my wedding day, Mom, he said softly aloud. I'm marrying the woman I always told you I would someday.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? —George Bernard Shaw

You can't expect an agnostic to be very thrilled at the prospect of a healthy young woman getting herself togged up to exchange marriage vows with someone who was executed nearly two thousand years ago,' he said.

Elena: I love you. Damon: 'til death do us part.

It is dances like these, I have found, that make the world go 'round. It is how glances are exchanged, alliances are made, vows sworn, and, ultimately, how babies finally get born. Richard

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.

Vows of friendship and love are stronger,

Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love persuades them to make vows, build houses and turn their passion ultimately to duty.

Maisie placed her hands together in front of her face, just touching her nose, as if in prayer. "Let me ask you another question. What value do you place on your marriage?" "What sort of question is that?" "A question to be answered, if I am to take on this investigation." "A high value. Vows are meant to be honored." "And what value do you place on understanding, compassion, forgiveness?

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.