The pledge of happier times. [ Motto ]

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine. [ Ben Jonson ]

Bright pledge of peace and sunshine. [ Henry Vaughan ]

The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. [ Mazzini ]

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent (pledge). [ German Proverb ]

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. [ Ben Jonson ]

And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. [ Thomas Jefferson ]

Most gladly would I give the bloodstained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year. [ Schiller ]

Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself. [ Buffon ]

Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]