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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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2

All promise outruns performance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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3

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

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Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

Ruckett

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5

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

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6

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

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7

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Ovid

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8

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

Dwight L. Moody

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9

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

E. W. Howe

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10

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

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11

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

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12

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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13

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.

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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Aeschylus

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15

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Norman Douglas

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16

No pillows so soft as God's Promise.

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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

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One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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19

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

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20

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Norman Vincent Peale

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21

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

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22

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

William Hazlitt

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23

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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24

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Carl Jung

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25

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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26

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Michelangelo

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27

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.

Lewis Carroll

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28

There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.

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29

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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30

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

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31

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Thornton Wilder

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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

All promise outruns performance.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

No pillows so soft as God's Promise.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.

There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.