Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Broken Promises Sayings and Quotes

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Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.    

Richard Paul Evans



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Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

Danish Proverb



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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Edgar Watson Howe



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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift



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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

William Hazlitt



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Some promises are better left unsaid.

Ashlee Simpson



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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Norman Vincent Peale




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Liars make the best promises.

Pierce Brown



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Sometimes your pledges become your problems.

Amit Kalantri



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But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.    

Jussi Adler-Olsen



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Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing.

unknown



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Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Samuel Butler



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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

Proverb



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A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert Service



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For every promise, there is price to pay.

Jim Rohn



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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.

German Proverb



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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche



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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Thomas Fuller




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

Niccolo Machiavelli



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

English Proverb



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It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Shirley MacLaine



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Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.    

Benjamin Franklin



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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

Gaelic Proverb



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Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Mohandas Gandhi



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

Napoleon Bonaparte



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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Dutch Proverb



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

Abraham Lincoln



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When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then - he needn't hope to find himself again.

Robert Bolt



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All promise outruns performance.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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Better a broken promise than none at all.

Mark Twain

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