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| Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver. ~ Author Unknown |
| Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. ~ Hannah Arendt |
| Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~ Edgar Watson Howe |
| We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. ~ Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld |
| Oaths are but words, and words but wind. ~ Samuel Butler |
| To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. ~ Mark Twain, |
| It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. ~ Aeschylus |
| The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte |
| When a man takes an oath… he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then – he needn’t hope to find himself again. ~ Robert Bolt |
| Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ~ Norman Douglas |
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| Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| All promise outruns performance. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. ~ Thomas Fuller |
| Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. ~ Norman Vincent Peale |
| He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~ Proverb |
| Promise is most given when the least is said. ~ George Chapman |
| Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~ Danish Proverb |
| Nothing weights lighter than a promise. ~ German Proverb |
| A promise made is a debt unpaid. ~ Robert Service |
| Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. ~ Jonathan Swift |
| An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. ~ William Dean Howells |
| Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ~ Denis Waitley |
| We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ~ Abraham Lincoln |
| For every promise, there is price to pay. ~ Jim Rohn |
| The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. ~ William Lyon MacKenzie |
| Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~ German Proverb |
| One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. ~ Thomas Fuller |
| Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ~ William Hazlitt |
| The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli |