Quotes about Promises

“All promise outruns performance.”

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

“Eggs and oaths are easily broken.”

“No pillows so soft as God's Promise.”

“Nothing weights lighter than a promise.”

“One promises much, to avoid giving little.”

“He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.”

“Promise is most given when the least is said.”

“Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.”

“Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.”

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

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

“Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.”

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

“Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.”

“Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.”

“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.”

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

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

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

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

“What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.”

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

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