VOW

Related Subjects: Oath, Promise, Swearing

1. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.—Bible, Ecclesiastes 5:5
   

2. Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,
   That 'tis a kind of heaven to be deluded by him.—NATHANIEL LEE, Alexander the Great
   

3. Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

4. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.—Proverb

5. 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth,
   But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
   

6. The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King