Promise

Famous quotes containing the word promise:

“Legislators or revolutionaries who promise equality coupled with freedom are either phantasts or charlatans.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that’s none of the law’s business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he’d better have the rooms available.”
—Unknown. Charlotte Observer (October 6, 1989)

“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)