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"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."
Aeschylus on Promises
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"If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
Bonaparte, Napoleon on Promises
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"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
Bonaparte, Napoleon on Promises
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"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today."
Carroll, Lewis on Promises
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"What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water."
Catullus on Promises
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"Promise is most given when the least is said."
Chapman, George on Promises
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"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it."
Douglas, Norman on Promises
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"All promise outruns performance."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Promises
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"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
Frost, Robert on Promises
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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."
Fuller, Thomas on Promises
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"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it."
Fuller, Thomas on Promises
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"Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
Hazlitt, William on Promises
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"Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made."
Howe, Edgar Watson on Promises
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"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on Promises
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"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
Machiavelli, Niccolo on Promises
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"God never made a promise that was too good to be true."
Moody, Dwight L. on Promises
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"Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned."
Ovid on Promises
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"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once."
Peale, Norman Vincent on Promises
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"He loses his thanks who promises and delays."
Proverb on Promises
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"There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give."
Proverb on Promises
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"Eggs and oaths are easily broken."
Proverb, Danish on Promises
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"Nothing weights lighter than a promise."
Proverb, German on Promises
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"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
Rousseau, Jean Jacques on Promises
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"Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms."
Ruckett on Promises
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"No pillows so soft as God's Promise."
Saying on Promises
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"A promise made is a debt unpaid."
Service, Robert W. on Promises
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"Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken."
Swift, Jonathan on Promises
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