#vow

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ↗

— George William Curtis

#new #new year #vows #white #year

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#consonants #man #only #sounds #utter

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#being #between #certain #consonants #constructed

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall. ↗

— George Weinberg

#being #heterosexual #i #more #proud

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#difficult #english-speaking #french #full #many

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

#between #candidate #forgotten #like #made

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget. ↗

— Matt Groening

#grown-ups #i #kid #like #most