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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
Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace -- Ezra Taft Benson
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'. -- Sam Ewing
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. -- Anna Quindlen
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. -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Jill McCorkle
It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass. -- Rachel Caine
But he knew full well that marriage vows were not a guarantee, nor a promise, of everlasting happiness. -- Kristen Callihan
Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows. -- Heather Day Gilbert
Marriage is meant to keep people together not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That's why we take marriage vows - not wishes -- Ngina Otiende
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. -- Tessa Dare
I love you now more than I ever have in some ways and though different people view their marriage vows differently, I meant mine to the death. I'm ready to be yours forever if you must know it, but since you've fallen in love and want to marry someone else, I feel I have no choice but to move aside and let you do that. -- Paula McLain
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. -- George Sand
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 -- Tom Brokaw
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. -- R. C. Sproul
May these vows and this marriage be blessed. -- Rumi
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage. -- Tertullian
When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise. -- Brad Paisley
The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick. -- Jenna Morasca
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding. -- Jessica Valenti
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. -- Myles Munroe

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