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Quotes About Vows

The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
~ Queen Victoria
Sometimes new spouses don't fully process the commitment they've made until after the deal is done, and then they panic.
~ Emily V. Gordon
When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'
~ Mark Udall
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.
~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
The ceremony was elegant and yet surprisingly intimate. The pastor read from Second Corinthians, and then Megan and Daniel recited vows they'd written together. They promised patience when it was easy to be impatient, candor when it was easier to lie, and in their own ways, each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.
~ Nicholas Sparks
And don't worry." Bob, Carter's best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. "I've got it handled on this end. And I memorized the vows just in case he needs me to throw him a line." "You're a treasure, Bob." She waited until she was out of earshot to laugh.
~ Nora Roberts
he didn't intend to marry just for responsiblity. There would be love, and passion, and the meeting of minds before there were vows.
~ Nora Roberts
Das Quietschen von Bettfedern, das Klatschen von Haut auf nackter Haut, das alles war ein biologisches Versprechen, dauerhafter als jedes Ja-Wort.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you".
~ Clive Barker
I believed in our vows. I just prayed that one day, we could get back to the 'for better ' part because we were drowning in all of this for worse.
~ Victoria Christopher Murray
Hac gener atque socer coeant mercede suorum: sanguine Troiano et Rutulo dotabere, virgo, et Bellona manet te pronuba.
~ Virgil
The funny thing is that although we place so much energy and importance on our wedding day, it isn't the biggest day of our life. The biggest day of your life is every day thereafter. Because it's not the pledge to love someone that matters, but the act of fulfilling that pledge that is most important. In other words, it's only just begun.
~ Laura Wolf
She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble
~ Charles Dickens
You didn't take your wife p. 59for fast and for loose; but for better for worse.
~ Charles Dickens
Oaths are but words, and words but wind...
~ Samuel Butler
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
~ Danish Proverb
her mouth and the earnestness in her expression were of a kind that made both the celibate and the happily married question the wisdom of their vows.
~ James Lee Burke
But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue, Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do.
~ Joyce Rachelle, Sewing Figs
Marriages are fragile. When you boil off all the nonsense, what they amount to is a promise.
~ Thomas Perry
Though Chip's tears during the exchange of vows weren't a surprise, their duration and magnitude was a spectacle unlike any Liz had ever witnessed.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house, And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
~ Walt Whitman
Senators undertake to disturb us... by reminding us of the possibility of large numbers swarming from China; but the answer to all this is very obvious and very simple. If the Chinese come here, they will come for citizenship or merely for labor. If they come for citizenship, then in this desire do they give a pledge of loyalty to our institutions; and where is the peril in such vows? They are peaceful and industrious; how can their citizenship be the occasion of solicitude?
~ Charles Sumner
Old Custom, which to-day allows Addresses such as this; When timid lovers breathe their vows, And sing of promised bliss; Emboldens one, who else would fear To make his feelings known...
~ Theodore Hook, "Valentine"