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Bart Simpson1 quote
I can’t promise I’ll try, but I’ll try to try. — Bart Simpson · 1997Euripides1 quote
My tongue swore, but my mind's unsworn. — Euripides · 428 BCSamuel Butler (poet)1 quote
Oaths are but words, and words but wind. — Samuel Butler (poet) · 1664Sir Thomas More1 quote
When 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 · 1966William Shakespeare1 quote
Vows were ever brokers to defiling. — William Shakespeare · 1609