Vows of love prove its inconstancy. [ Marmontel ]

Unadvised vows are an offense to God. [ Proverb ]

It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale's high note is heard;
It is the hour when lovers' vows
Seem sweet in every whispered word. [ Byron ]

Vows made in storms are forgot in calms. [ Proverb ]

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows;
They are polluted offerings, more abhorred
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. [ William Shakespeare ]

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge. [ Quarles ]

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break. [ Dryden ]

Let US make no vows, but let us act as if we had. [ Rochepedre ]

Make thee my knight? my knights are sworn to vows
Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness,
And, loving, utter faithfulness in love,
And uttermost obedience to the king. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Vows are the false money that pays for the sacrifices of love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

There are no oaths that make so many perjurers as the vows of love. [ Rochebrune ]

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm. [ Halleck ]

Love, well thou knowest, no partnership allows; Cupid averse rejects divided vows. [ Prior ]

When a mother, as fond mothers will, vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much. [ Thackeray ]

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things. [ William Shakespeare ]

The habit of exaggeration in language should be guarded against; it misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot perform, and we have often found the most glowing declarations of intended good services end in mere Irish vows. [ Eliza Cook ]