Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. W. Howe

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Thomas Fuller

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

George Chapman

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Mark Twain

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Patricia Ryan

Deliver more than you promise.

Hannah Arendt

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

Luc de Clapiers

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Ovid

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Mahatma Gandhi

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Anthony Hitt

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

Barack Obama

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

William Shakespeare

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

William Shakespeare

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

William Shakespeare

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

William Shakespeare

And be these juggling friends 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.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Aaron Boone

We realize there is more at stake, but I promise you we'll go there with the same attitude. That's just the way this team is.