Country boy Quote by Ron Chernow

“Oaths be of the heart, and he that breaketh them in open fact is oft, as now, no breaker in truth, for already were…

— E.R. Eddison

“It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

— P. G. Wodehouse

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

— John Dryden

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

— Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

— Samuel Butler

“The boy, on the other hand, was a menace, in his father’s eyes. He could DO THINGS, as he’d overheard it being described to…

— Vrinda Pendred

The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a…

— Anonymous

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself…

— William Shakespeare

“Never offer an oath lightly. For you pledge not only your life and sacred honor, but your people’s honor as well. To break an…

— Raymond E. Feist

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

— Robert Bolt

“Did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never," growled thunder, "let's give him the works.”

— William Steig