Tuesday 9 May 2017

Broken Promises Sayings and Quotes



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

Richard Paul Evans





Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

Danish Proverb





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

Edgar Watson Howe





Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift





Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

William Hazlitt





Some promises are better left unsaid.

Ashlee Simpson





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

Norman Vincent Peale






Liars make the best promises.

Pierce Brown





Sometimes your pledges become your problems.

Amit Kalantri





But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.    

Jussi Adler-Olsen





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

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Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Samuel Butler





He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

Proverb





A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert Service





For every promise, there is price to pay.

Jim Rohn





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

German Proverb





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

Friedrich Nietzsche





Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Thomas Fuller






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

Niccolo Machiavelli





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

English Proverb





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

Shirley MacLaine





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

Benjamin Franklin





There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

Gaelic Proverb





Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Mohandas Gandhi





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

Napoleon Bonaparte





Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Dutch Proverb





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

Abraham Lincoln





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





All promise outruns performance.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson





Better a broken promise than none at all.

Mark Twain

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