PROMISES QUOTES III

quotations about promises

Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Promise was a pretty maid,
But being poor she died unwed.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

speech, February 22, 1842

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Some promises aren't worth keeping.

HOLLY BLACK

Black Heart


The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Expect nothing from him who promises a great deal.

JEAN VENERONI

attributed, Day's Collacon


A promise is a debt.

J. J. ENGEL

attributed, Day's Collacon