A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
Arabian Proverb
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
Dutch Proverb
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
Corrie Ten Boom
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller
Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.
German Proverb
For every promise, there is price to pay.
Jim Rohn
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
William Dean Howells
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
German Proverb
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
Proverb
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale