Bad Promises Quotes

#1. Bad promises are better broken than kept.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Robert Kiyosaki

#3. Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises.

Andy Stanton

#4. I'm a realist," I said. "Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.

Nicole Williams

#5. A god who brings you good and bad in equal amounts doesn't ask for much, " she said. "Maybe a prayer or two. Maybe the odd sacrifice of a beast. But a god who promises only good times?" She shook her head and made the warding sign against evil. "A god like that will always want something from you.

John Flanagan

#6. Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

Lawrence LeShan

#7. If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.

Isocrates

#8. I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#9. Life makes two promises, one, it promises to be good, and two, it promises to be bad. Cherish the good and be strong during the bad.

Meena Sarine

#10. Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

Robert Charles Wilson

#11. We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

Daniel Webster

#12. She told him television was a bad influence. Probably she was right. Like those white birds he's been seeing outside the window, it flashes its wings and promises whatever you want, even before you knew you wanted it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Jennifer Donnelly

#14. Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.

Jay Leno

#15. Life always promises to give the world a person to take away everything bad.

Eloise Dyson

#16. Bad bananas are like push-up bras
a promise of tenderness can deliver tasteless mush, and we're not supposed to complain.

Kate Lebo

#17. God doesn't promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.

Jim George