Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.