The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
?Napoleon Bonaparte
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
?Arabian Proverb
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
There is no greater fraud
than a promise not kept.
?Gaelic Proverb
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons
to break his promise.
?Niccolo Machiavelli
You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you
promise others enough, you can live on your own.
?Mark Caine
Those that are most slow in making a promise
are the most faithful in the performance of it.
?Jean Jacques Rousseau
Where there is an unknowable
there is a promise.
?Thornton Wilder
Between today and tomorrow are
graves, and between promising
and fulfilling are chasms.
?Ruckett
