Where there is an unknowable, ...

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

~Thornton Wilder~

When did the future switch fro...

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

~Chuck Palahniuk~

When a man repeats a promise a...

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

~Proverb~

We promise according to our ho...

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld~

We must not promise what we ou...

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

~Abraham Lincoln~

Vote for the man who promises ...

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

~Bernard Baruch~

Unless commitment is made, the...

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

~Peter F. Drucker~

Undertake not what you cannot ...

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

~George Washington~

To promise not to do a thing i...

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876~

Thou ought to be nice, even to...

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

~Thomas Fuller~

Those who promise us paradise ...

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

~Karl Popper~

Those that are most slow in ma...

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

~Jean Jacques Rousseau~

This is the first convention o...

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

~Author Unknown~

The very first law in advertis...

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

~Bill Cosby~

The promises of yesterday are ...

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

~William Lyon Mackenzie King~

The promise given was a necess...

The promise given was a necessity of the past:  the word broken is a necessity of the present.

~Niccolo Machiavelli~

The man who promises everythin...

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.

~Carl Jung~

The best way to keep one's wor...

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

~Napoleon Bonaparte~

Some persons make promises for...

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

~William Hazlitt~

Rarely promise, but, if lawful...

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

~William Penn~