"Promises may fit the friends, but non performance……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies."
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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More Broken Promises Quotes
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
— Hannah Arendt
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
— Abigail Adams
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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
— Henry Adams
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
— Buffalo Bill
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
— Warren Buffett
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
— John Burroughs
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
— Albert Camus
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