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:

    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)

    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)

    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)