Promise is most given when the least is said.
George Chapman
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolò Machiavelli
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
William Lyon MacKenzie
Never promise more than you can perform.
Publilius Syrus
All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Edgar Watson Howe
A promise must never be broken.
Alexander Hamilton
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson
Last Updated : 25th January, 2018