Promises Quotes
29 quotations about Promises
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.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
All promise outruns performance.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.
No pillows so soft as God's Promise.