God's illumined promise. [ Longfellow ]
No pillow so soft as God's promise. [ Saying ]
Men apt to promise are apt to forget. [ Proverb ]
Better deny at once than promise long. [ Proverb ]
A man apt to promise is apt to forget. [ Proverb ]
Mild arch of promise! on the evening-sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each in the other melting. [ Southey ]
We promise much, that we may give little. [ Vauvenargues ]
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. [ Proverb ]
They speak of hope to the fainting heart,
With a voice of promise they come and part,
They sleep in dust through the wintry hours,
They break forth in glory - bring flowers,
bright flowers! [ Mrs. Hemans ]
The promise is no sooner given than fulfilled. [ Ovid ]
In the land of promise a man may die of hunger. [ Dutch Proverb ]
There is no piety in keeping an unjust promise. [ Proverb ]
The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake.
They sighed for the dawn and thee. [ Tennyson ]
To promise and give nothings is a comfort for a fool. [ Proverb ]
A promise against law or duty, is void in its own nature. [ Proverb ]
I can promise to be candid, but I cannot promise to be impartial. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. [ Proverb ]
Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin. [ Horace Bushnell ]
To be deceived by a promise, is worse than to be put by one's hopes. [ Proverb ]
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. [ Goethe ]
Ever keep thy promise, cost what it may; this it is to be true as steel.
[ Charles Reade ]
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
All great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. [ Emerson ]
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest? [ Waller ]
In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered. [ Cicero ]
What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing? Answer: A great man's promise. [ Proverb ]
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
When an old man will not drink, you may safely promise him a visit in the next world. [ Proverb ]
Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform. [ Spurgeon ]
Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day. [ Seneca ]
Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next. [ Ovid ]
The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. [ Macchiavelli ]
Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]
Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be. [ Tillotson ]
No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath. [ Swift ]
Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time. [ Quintilian ]
Promising is the very air of the time; it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will, or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. [ William Shakespeare ]
The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]