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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.—AESCHYLUS
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He that imposes an oath makes it,
Not he that for convenience takes it;
Then how can any man be said
To break an oath he never made?—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
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Oaths are but words, and words but wind.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
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I will take my corporal oath on it.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
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You may depend upon it, the more oath-taking, the more lying generally among the people.—COLERIDGE, Table Talk
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Oaths, used as playthings or convenient tools.—COWPER, Expostulation
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We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.—JEFFERSON, Declaration of Independence
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I take the official oath today with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution by any hypercritical rules.—LINCOLN
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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.—Proverb
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An unlawful oath is better broke than kept.—Proverb
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.—SANTAYANA, Interpretations of Poetry
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False as dicers' oaths.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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A good mouth-filling oath.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
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What fool is not so wise
To break an oath, to win a paradise?—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
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Having sworn too hard a keeping oath,
Study to break it and not break my troth.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
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Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
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An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:
Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
No, not for Venice.—SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice
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I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath;
Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.—SHAKESPEARE, Pericles
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The strongest oaths are straw
To the fire i' the blood.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
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If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear it in the behalf of his friend.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
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I write a woman's oaths in water.—SOPHOCLES
