PROMISES QUOTES

quotations about promises

Promises quote

The man who is most slow in promising is most sure to keep his word.

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Anyone can be rich in promises.

OVID

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

THEODORE PARKER

attributed, Day's Collacon

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The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

MOLLY RINGWALD

When It Happens To You


Many clouds do not always produce heavy showers, neither do the hasty promises of fickle men yield us much good.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Giants in
Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies
In their performance.

PHILIP MASSINGER

Great Duke of Florence


Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens
That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VI, Part I

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What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

LAUREN OLIVER

Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven


Just when you think you got it down
Your heart securely tied and bound
They whisper, promises in the dark

PAT BENATAR

"Promises in the Dark"

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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

speech at the first Republican state convention of Illinois, May 29, 1856

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You say you'll give me
Eyes in a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbor in the tempest

But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

U2

"All I Want Is You"

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Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken.

JONATHAN SWIFT

"Polite Conversation", The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift

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Liars make the best promises.

PIERCE BROWN

Golden Son


How sad they are,
the promises we never return to.
They stay in our mouths,
roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"Autumn Quince"

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I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face

ANNE SEXTON

"Killing the Love", 45 Mercy Street

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Though promising is not giving, it satisfies fools.

FERNAO MENDEZ PINTO

attributed, Day's Collacon


Some persons spend so much time in making promises, that they have no time left to fulfill them.

E. P. DAY

Day's Collacon


And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,
That palter with us in a double sense:
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

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I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise.

STEVE MARABOLI

Life, the Truth, and Being Free


Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.

RICK YANCEY

The 5th Wave