Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
ELIEL SAARINEN Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT Enemies promises were made to be broken.
AESOP Enemies' promises were made to be broken
AESOP Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
W.B. YEATS The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.
BREE DESPAIN Maybe I've got to be sufficiently broken by life's many broken promises to be sufficiently compelled...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Promises are meant to be kept, for they are like precious pearls in an ocean, their value is high an...
UNKNOWN In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I know many minority groups in the past have had promises made and promises broken. I understand tha...
GLENN POSHARD Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonath...
JONATHAN SWIFT The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an
u...
BREE DESPAIN Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fract...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Status quos are made to be broken.
RAY A. DAVIS All records are not made to be broken.
KARL MALONE Broken homes, broken marriages, broken life, broken promises, broken faith; all these I pray not for...
OLASOT Laws are made not to be broken.
They are made to curb our savagery.
TOBA BETA Word of assurance is one of the most comforting words. But when made to be broken like any other pro...
BRADLEY B. DALINA Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies...
HERBERT AGAR Life is full of broken promises.
SUZANNE KRAMB She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys a...
JANE AUSTEN For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Certainly they will use it to show that promises made will be fulfilled. But in this country there's...
PAIKIASOTHY SARAVANAMUTTU Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties b...
BUFFALO BILL So long there are women around, a cheater will cheat against his promise.
ANTHONY LICCIONE The economic crisis would pass despite the government, not because of it.
JOSEPH MUSCAT So friendship is all about ignoring?
...
Fake smiles?
...
Lies
...
DEYTH BANGER Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort o...
KENNETH GRAHAME Rulers were made to be broken.
MICHAEL ISENBERG Laws were made to be broken.
CHRISTOPHER NORTH Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
LORD BYRON Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
PETER F. DRUCKER Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
PETER F. DRUCKER We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.
TAYLOR SWIFT And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.
BIBLE The heart was made to be broken.
OSCAR WILDE The heart was made to be broken
OSCAR WILDE That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.
KATHLEEN GLASGOW I think it is important to note that P.P.C.O.M. has essentially broken its promises here.
MICHELLE FIRMBACH Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But th...
T. J. MILLER They apply and decide cases according to the judicial process, not on the basis of promises made ear...
JOHN ROBERTS It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
CHIEF JOSEPH It's a conn job out in Brandon. A lot of promises were broken.
BOB SMITH Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me?
JACK HANDY It's what Jonathan Swift suggested two and a half centuries ago: making two blades of grass grow whe...
MARTIN BELL Jonathan and I are highly aligned.
SCOTT MCNEALY We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generat...
JOHN RACHEL Pain and misery are two different words, which both hurt.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE She became her own knight; she collected those broken promises and whispered apologies and fashioned...
EMILY LLOYD-JONES Don't make any promises that you can't keep
ANN MARIE AGUILAR He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now...
ALEATHA ROMIG She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets...
SUSANNA CLARKE Promises not kept, plans which aren’t made are “Commitments” in fragments… - Cocoy McCoy -
COCOY MCCOY I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a prec...
MUHAMMADU BUHARI And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and ...
SANHITA BARUAH Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
THEODORE PARKER I made promises. I intend to keep them.
MEREDITH WILD Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.
COLLEEN HOOVER She made and broke a lot of promises to western New York.
JAMES NOVAK When you really matter to someone, that person will always make time for you, no excuses, no lies an...
RANA MAGDY We are made of all those who have built and broken us.
ATTICUS POETRY The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you...
TAYLOR SWIFT that the promises that were made on my end are carried out to the best of my ability.
DREW CARTER Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.
KERSTIN GIER Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.
MIKE ROSS Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they're flawed and broken somehow. If ...
BEN PEEK Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship b...
DICK GREGORY It will come down to a choice of new leadership versus old leadership, old ideas and broken promises...
DAVID MCINTOSH You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ...
TEGAN QUIN Promises are perhaps made in haste or out of emotions, that is why people do not afford to keep them
TARIF NAAZ Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko,
Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy.....
.....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,
K...
VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM We have made promises before but we failed to execute them. We must fight like the Sony warriors tha...
HOWARD STRINGER Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
BIBLE We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Promises were made to do other things and they wouldn't do it. I want to know there's going to be th...
ANDY CERCO We have tried other crusts and they were horrible. Our pizza is different. The crust is flakier.
PATTY SORRELS Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
SARAH MCLACHLAN These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and...
TAYLOR SWIFT To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For some people, promises define who they are- their character, respect for themselves and others, a...
JOSé N. HARRIS Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
EDWARD W. HOWE The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken�...
OSCAR WILDE This election is wide open because Canadians have a real, a positive and a progressive choice: the o...
JACK LAYTON If we had known he was going to get 24 years we would have seriously considered taking the case to t...
ALBERTO PULLEN She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible.
ARIANA DANCU In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only perform...
HAROLD S. GENEEN When I say 'I won't hurt you', it's a promise, which can and will be kept but it does not come from ...
EVA SCHUETTE The commission is very conscious of the swift and severe price spikes that occurred immediately befo...
JOHN SEESEL Parking also promises to be a challenge downtown and chances are you'll spend more than $5 a pop.
MARIBETH SMITH The bridges are not broken, in aviation they must not be broken.
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