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Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Sep 23, 2025
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
Deliver more than you promise.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.
I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.
Better a broken promise than none at all.
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Algeria is not breaking up.
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.
There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.