Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me
– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
– Jeff Melvoin
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw
He that promises most will perform least.
– Gaelic Proverb
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
– Edmund Burke
It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
– Evelyn Waugh
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
– Theodore Parker
My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
– William Shakespeare
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
– Quentin Crisp
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
– Francis Marion
Some promises are better left unsaid
– Ashlee Simpson, In her album Autobiography.
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
– George Stephanopolous
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.
– Robert Frost
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.
– Ronald Reagan
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
– Thomas Fuller
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
– Peter Drucker
When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.
– Franklin P. Adams
When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.
– Real Live Preacher
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
– Marion Wink
