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Enemies' promises were made to be broken. - Aesop Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. - Hannah Arendt Promise is most given when the least is said. - George Chapman, translation of Musoeus "Hero and Leander", l. 234 Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. - Cyril Connolly To promise is to give, to hope is to enjoy. [Fr., Promettre c'est donner, esperer c'est jouir.] - Abbe Jacques Delille (Jaques Delisle), Jardins (I) If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. - Clint Eastwood You never bade me hope, 'tis true; I asked you not to swear: But I looked in those eyes of blue, And read a promise there. - Gerald Griffin, You Never Bade Me Hope A promise must never be broken. - Alexander Hamilton Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. - Edgar Watson Howe We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (no. 39) We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. - Abraham Lincoln Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. - Philip Massinger, Great Duke (act II, sc. 3) One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. - William Penn Thy promises are like Adonis' garden, That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Charles at I, vi) And be these juggling fiends no more believed, 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 (Macbeth at V, viii) His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his performance, as he is now, nothing. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Katherine Dowager at IV, ii) There buds the promise of celestial worth. - Edward Young, The Last Day (bk. III, l. 317)
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