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Famous Promise Quotes
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No pillows so soft as God's Promise.
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God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Dwight L. Moody - 3Up 1Down 0
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale - 4Up 1Down 0
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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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolò Machiavelli - 6Up 0Down 0
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 - 7Up 0Down 0
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 8Up 0Down 0
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 - 9Up 0Down 0
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolò Machiavelli - 10Up 0Down 0
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll - 11Up 0Down 0
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift - 12Up 0Down 0
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost - 15Up 0Down 0
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller M.D. - 16Up 0Down 0
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Norman Douglas - 17Up 0Down 0
If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte - 18Up 0Down 0
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Ovid - 19Up 0Down 0
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte - 20Up 0Down 0
Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.
Ruckett - 21Up 0Down 0
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
Thornton Wilder - 22Up 0Down 0
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Thomas Fuller M.D. - 23Up 0Down 0
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - 24Up 0Down 0
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Edgar Watson Howe - 25Up 0Down 0
All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - 26Up 0Down 0
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller M.D. - 28Up 0Down 0
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 - 29Up 0Down 0
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus - 30Up 0Down 1
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt - 31Up 0Down 1
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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Famous Promise Quotes at 7/17/2012 5:30 AM