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29 quotes (Page 1 of 2 pages)A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Promises
Niccolo Machiavelli
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A promise made is a debt unpaid.
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Robert W. Service
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All promise outruns performance.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
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Thomas Fuller
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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.
Promises
Danish Proverb
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Promises
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.
Promises
Edgar Watson Howe
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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Promises
Thomas Fuller
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
Promises
Proverb
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If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Promises
Norman Douglas
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No pillows so soft as God's Promise.
Promises
Saying
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
Promises
German Proverb
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Promises
Marquis De Vauvenargues
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Promise is most given when the least is said.
Promises
George Chapman
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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
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Jonathan Swift
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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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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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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
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Lewis Carroll
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