One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday –but never jam today.
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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