Quotes on promises
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Baruch, Bernard M.
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Service, Robert
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Peale, Norman Vincent
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
Boom, Corrie Ten
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Franklin, Benjamin
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Hazlitt, William
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Khrushchev, Nikita
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
Gandhi, Mohandas
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
Lardner, Ring
Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.
Unknown, Author
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.
MacLaine, Shirley
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Franklin, Benjamin
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Fuller, Thomas
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Dyer, Wayne
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Arendt, Hannah
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
Swift, Jonathan
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Popper, Karl
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Cosby, Bill
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Harris, Sydney J.
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
Proverb, Chinese
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
Proverb, Danish
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
Proverb
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Lincoln, Abraham
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
Howells, William Dean
Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
Samuel Butler