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:

    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)

    There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
    Titus Livius (Livy)

    God bless our good and gracious King,
    Whose promise none relies on;
    Who never said a foolish thing,
    Nor ever did a wise one.
    John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)