PROMISE

Related Subjects: Debt, Oath, Vow

1. If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise!—BROWNING, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
   

2. Promise is most given when the least is said.—GEORGE CHAPMAN, Musoeus of Hero & Leander
   

3. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Dance of Life
   

4. Failed the bright promise of your early day.—REGINALD HEBER, Palestine
   

5. He that promises too much means nothing.—Proverb
   

6. When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail
   you.—Proverb
   

7. He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.—Proverb
   

8. He loses his thanks who promises and delays.—Proverb
   

9. A promise against law or duty, is void in its own nature.—Proverb
   

10. All promises are either broken or kept.—Proverb
    

11. A fair promise makes a fool merry.—Proverb
    

12. Be slow to promise, quick to perform.—Proverb
    

13. A man apt to promise is apt to forget.—Proverb
    

14. Never promise more than you can perform.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

15. He was ever precise in promise-keeping.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

16. And though he promise to his loss,
    He makes his promise good.—TATE & BRADY, Psalms