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:

    “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)

    “The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable rôle with the promise of rewards—material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the Garden of Eden.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

    “We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)