An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
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60,000 QUOTES SPIDER
 


QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON VOWS

 

 

Vows begin when hope dies.

 

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)

 

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

 

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)

 

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

 

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)

 

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

 

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)

 

A vow is a snare for sin.

 

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)

 

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

 

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))

 

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

 

William Penn (1644-1718, British religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania)

 

Men's vows are women's traitors!

 

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

 

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

 

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

 

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