Promise

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)