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  • Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

    Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”
  • How is it you’ve never married?” A soft splash. “It’s an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return to bed at night without having recited marriage vows. After several years, I have the trick of it down.

    Morning   Night   Years  
  • I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

    Marriage   Husband   Mean  
    Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)
  • And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

    Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

    1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
  • I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

    Passion   Men   Use  
    Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.198, Everyman's Library
  • The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

  • What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of.

    Marriage   Love Is   Two  
  • A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.

  • Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.

  • The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

  • In marriage for example, you say 'Yes' on the day you get married, 'I do', but each day you implicitly if not explicitly, also say 'Yes', by every act that one performs in a marriage, one is saying 'Yes', making a cup of coffee for one's wife or husband is a form of saying 'Yes' to the marriage vow that one is continuing the marriage by affirming it in one's deeds. And exactly the same in the religious life.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option

  • Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: His life, Her Life, and Your life together.

    Loneliness   Rain   Two  
  • I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.

    Marriage   Party   Mean  
  • In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.

    Marriage   Phrases   Debt  
  • Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of "Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue this woman until such time as you grow bored?" "Maybe." "Close enough. And do you promise to applaud this man`s production until such time as you find someone with a bigger ... corporation?" "Whatever." "By the power vested in me by having scammed you guys out of a marriage license fee, I now pronounce you man and appendage. May you be unencumbered by small persons."

    Running   Men   Bored  
  • Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

    Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria
  • Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace

  • Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths.

    Hypocrite   Rose   Grace  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

    Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”
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