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Promise Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
- What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but…
- No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in…
- Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more…
More Promise Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. — Arthur Balfour
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac
- Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
- Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch
- Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he… — Bob Beauprez
- Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens. — Bob Beauprez
- Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
- Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. — Buffalo Bill
- Let God's promises shine on your problems. — Corrie Ten Boom
- I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain. — Conrad Black