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Promises5 quotes
I can’t promise I’ll try, but I’ll try to try. — Bart Simpson · 1997My tongue swore, but my mind's unsworn. — Euripides · 428 BCOaths are but words, and words but wind. — Samuel Butler (poet) · 1664Vows were ever brokers to defiling. — William Shakespeare · 1609When a man takes an oath, he's holding his own self in his own hands like water, and if he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again. — Sir Thomas More · 1966Broken promises1 quote
Vows were ever brokers to defiling. — William Shakespeare · 1609