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He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
Sep 17, 2025
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.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
Deliver more than you promise.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.