The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccolò Machiavelli Category: Promises
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. – Abraham Lincoln Category: Promises
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. – Benjamin Franklin Category: Promises
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? – Vaclav Havel Category: Oppression
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. – M. F. K. Fisher Category: Food
There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them. – Sitting Bull Category: good
