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Quotes About Vows

Thus do I take you, to have and to hold, for the most wondrous and terrible of times, for the best and the worst of times, by day and by night, in sickness and in health. For I love you with all my heart and swear to love you eternally, until death do us part.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Thus do I take you, to have and to hold, for the most wondrous and terrible of times, for the best and the worst of times, by day and by night, in sickness and in health. For I love you with all my heart and swear to love you eternally, until death do us part. Traditional marriage vows
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Nine months earlier, when Olivia and I were exchanging wedding vows, we made absolutely no mention of shoving enemas up each other's asses. And yet here we are. This is what it means to love and be loved.
~ Andy Borowitz
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
God will judge those who treat lightly their marriage vows, or who engage in other forms of sexual impurity, saying: "whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." There is no such thing as "safe immorality," known erroneously today as "safe sex." It doesn't work.
~ Robert L. Sumner
on their wedding day?
~ Linda Lael Miller
A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
course she wanted Jamie to the exclusion of all others—what were the precise words of the marriage service, before linguistic meddling had destroyed its poetry? Forsaking all others? What a powerful, resonant word was forsake. The phrase forsaking all others meant so much more, made its point so much more emphatically than its weaker alternatives.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write. I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.
~ Donna Boyd
Never go in, miss. Never say a prayer at its door. If you are angry, do not seek revenge by the Laughing Maiden stone, or at the threshold of the Tombs. There be those who listen for oaths and vows, and them that takes it quite to heart. What may be said in innocence and ire becomes flesh and blood should it be uttered in such places.
~ Douglas Clegg
Covenant vows, covenant oaths don't move. They are to be the foundation. Your feelings and sentiments do move. What happens if you make them the foundation? When they go up and down, the whole house goes up and down—like living in a volatile earthquake zone.
~ Douglas Wilson
Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
~ Dennis Miller
When I get married, it will be for life - divorce is not an option.
~ Kelly Rowland
When you are operating under the influence of an inner vow, you are unteachable and unapproachable. You think you are the genius in a world of stooges.
~ Jimmy Evans
What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?" Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.
~ Jodi Thomas
Did you tell her it was just until all was safe, or did you promise her forever?" Victoria shook her head. "Sounds to me like you've got some proposing to do before you're really a married man. Maybe a few days alone will loosen your tongue and make that knee of your bend easier.
~ Jodi Thomas
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
~ Hans Kung
I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.
~ Michael Schiavo
I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.
~ Duane Chapman
Marry me. You'll learn to love me, I promise.
~ Robyn Carr
I'm going to marry you till you puke.
~ Lorrie Moore
One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Y entonces la soledad se poblaba con sus pensamientos, las tinieblas se desvanecían ante sus ilusiones, y el silencio se turbaba con sus votos y sus proyectos.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Unable are the Loved to die, for love is immortality, the Reverend quoted at the end of the marriage service, a blessing not only for the happy couple exchanging vows, but also in remembrance of Jet, whose favorite poet was Emily Dickinson, and of Franny, who had sacrificed so much for those she loved.
~ Alice Hoffman