Quotes by Vow The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. Alfred Lord Tennyson vow wise-words smart The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself. Alfred the Great snaps vow Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste. Andre Gide vow resolution sometimes I'm taking a vow not to advise. Barbara Bush vow advise The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract. Beatrice Lillie vow ceremony contracts I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste? C. J. Anderson vow clean taste Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician. Chris Patten vow politician numbers Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails. David Letterman vow email reading I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love. Deb Caletti steadiness vow So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore. Edmund Spenser vow purple malice how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride. Elinor Glyn vow lightning pride From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now. Epictetus vow disappointing needs What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm. Fitz-Greene Halleck vow kissing men With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge. Francis Quarles flux vow revenge I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. George Colman the Elder vow pleasure secret To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one. Georg C. Lichtenberg vow sin break The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. George Sand marriage-vows vow absurdity Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind. George R. R. Martin vow wind men A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke vow should long My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life. Homer wedding-day vow wife 1234»