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Vow me no vows. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Wit without Money (act IV, sc. 4) Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. V, v. 5) No man takes or keeps a vow, But just as he sees others do; Nor are they 'blig'd to be so brittle As not to yield and bow a little: For as best temper'd blades are found, Before they break, to bend quite round; So truest oaths are still more tough, And tho' they bow, are breaking proof. - Samuel Butler (1) The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream. - Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus) Make no vows to perform this or that; it shows no great strength, and makes thee ride behind thyself. - Thomas Fuller (1) Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow? - James Hogg ("The Ettrick Shepherd"), The Broken Heart A vow is a snare for sin. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Vows with so much passion, sears with so much grace, That 'tis a kind of Heaven to be deluded by him. - Nathaniel Lee, Rival Queens (act I, sc. 1) Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 96) Let us embrace, and from this very moment Vow an eternal misery together. - Thomas Otway, The Orphan (act IV, sc. 1) Men's vows are women's traitors. - William Shakespeare Those mouth-made vows, which break themselves in swearing. - William Shakespeare Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
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