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