Promissory Quotes

#1. A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age

Walter Brueggemann

#4. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it.
Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it.
Today is ready cash: Use it!

Edwin C. Bliss

#6. Love is not a promissory note.

Todd May

#7. In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

Henry Van Dyke

#8. Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

Hank Stram

#9. In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio ... But after 1400? Nihil.

Cathleen Schine

#10. God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#11. Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

Hal Borland

#12. To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

Pope Francis

#13. That a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime ... he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

John Burnham Schwartz

#14. I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.

Pat Conroy

#15. Yesterday is a cancelled check;
Tomorrow is a promissory note;
Today is the only cash you have,
so spend it wisely.

Kim Lyons

#16. For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

James Joyce

#17. Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.

Gerald Vizenor

#18. Dreams are for the dreamers. Goals are for achievers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#19. If there are errors, or anything you

Shelley Admont

#20. Labs, too, can become machines. In science, it is more often a pejorative description than a complimentary one: an efficient, thrumming, technically accomplished laboratory is like a robot orchestra that produces perfectly pitched tunes but no music.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#21. My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Jesse Plemons