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A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Robert William Service
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
Proverb
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.http://www.twainquotes.com/Promises.html
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller
Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
Hannah Arendt
Promise is most given when the least is said.
George Chapman
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Eliel Saarinen
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
Herbert Agar
'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
Danish proverb
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Abraham Lincoln
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
Thornton Wilder
If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
