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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. - Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

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Conformity
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Jonathan Swift
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. – Jonathan Swift

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Art
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Jonathan Swift
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Promises
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Promises

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Promises

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Promises

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. – Peter F. Drucker

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