Promise

Promise

A promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something.

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Famous quotes containing the word promise:

    He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)