Friendship Quote by Sophocles

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

— Thomas Southerne

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

— Ambrose Bierce

An oath-the strongest of religious ties.

— James Madison

An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling.

— Veronica Rossi

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

— Samuel Butler

“An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I…

— Rob S. Rice

It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a proper subject…

— Joseph Addison

A strong body, an alert mind, and a pure unselfish will are the things which this part of the oath promises to cultivate to…

— Senora Roy

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask…

— James L. Buckley

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

— Samuel Butler

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have sworn upon…

— Thomas Jefferson

The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge