Famous quotes containing the word promise:
“In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and thats none of the laws business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, hed better have the rooms available.”
—Unknown. Charlotte Observer (October 6, 1989)
“The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)
“Annie Laurie
Gied me her promise true;
Gied me her promise true,
Which neer forgot will be;
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
Id lay me doune and dee.”
—William Douglas (1672?1748)