“It was the promise of men, that around each corner there was yet another man, more wonderful than the last, that sustained me. You see, I had men confused with life. . . . You can't get what I wanted from a man, not in this life.”
Nancy Friday
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.”
Winnie the Pooh
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''”
C.S. Lewis
“In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man's letter”
Chinese Proverbs
“When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you”
Proverb
“Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.”
W. R. Inge
“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe