Quotes: Promises

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Real Democrats don’t make promises they can’t keep.

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

I think it’s going to deliver on the promises we’ve said it’s going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.