Famous Promises Quotes collection

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

"Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver."
~ Author Unknown

"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."
~ Hannah Arendt

"Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made."
~ Edgar Watson Howe

"The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today."
~ William Lyon MacKenzie

"An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises."
~ Mae West

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."
~ Robert Frost

"A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain."
~ Arabian Proverb

"There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept."
~ Gaelic Proverb

"You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own."
~ Mark Caine

Robert Frost famous quotes collection

Some of the famous quotes from the great American poet
Robert Frost


“It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”

“There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people”

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.”

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense”

“Freedom lies in being bold.”

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

"I always entertain great hopes."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."