A promise should be given with caution and kept with care.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

We promise much to avoid giving little.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

He that promises too much means nothing.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

I've broken all the good promises. When I was a little girl, I used to make promises on the new moon and the first snow. I've broken everything good.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay ones debt.

Promise little and do much; and receive every man cheerfully.

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