Age Like Milk

Are Hard To Take Back

Are Mostly Expectations

Become Heavier Over Time

Become Somebody’s Responsibility

Become Someone Else’s Problem

Bleed

Carry A Message

Carry Consequence

Carry Hope

Change Their Meaning Over Time

Collect Dust

Come Back Every Spring

Come Back To Bite You

Convert Action Into Consequence

Create Commitment

Create Expectations

Create Invisible Work

Create Obligation

Create Obligations

Decay Through Neglect

Demand Attention Eventually

Depend On Trust

Deteriorate Without Being Noticed

Don't Add Up

Don't Hold Water

End With A Cancellation

Exist Between People

Exist Mostly In Consequence

Exist Mostly In Their Consequences

Exist To Be Tested

Fall Flat

Get Forgotten

Get Lost In The Shuffle

Get Lost In Transit

Get Misplaced

Go Without Saying

Hold Water

Leave A Ring

Look Good On Paper

Need A Second Chance

Need A Signature

Need A Witness

Need Belief

Need Winding

Need Witnesses

Never Quite Land

Organize Hope

Overbook

Ping You

Promise Forever

Punish Neglect

Require A Deposit

Require Trust

Ring False

Ring Hollow

Ring True

Rust

Sound Good On Paper

Spend The Future

Start With A Deposit

Tarnish

Transfer Responsibility

Weigh On You

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is always made according to our hopes and performed according to our fears.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is of little account to the princes who have done great things.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises. Niccolo Machiavelli

 one can control as actions but not as feelings. I can promise to always treat you as one who loves but I can't promise to always love you.

What one can promise. One can promise actions but not feelings... for the latter are involuntary. He who promises someone he will always love him or always hate him or always be faithful to him, promises something that does not reside in his power... but he can certainly promise to perform actions which, though they are usually the consequences of love, hatred, faithfulness, can also derive from other motives: for several paths and motives can lead to the same action. To promise always to love someone therefore means: for as long as I love you I shall render to you the actions of love... if I cease to love you, you will continue to receive the same actions from me, though from other motives: so that in the heads of our fellow men the appearance will remain that love is still the same and unchanged. One therefore promises the continuation of the appearance of love when one swears to someone ever-enduring love without selfdeception. (nietzsche ... human all too' : 42)

is a thing whereby a broken one is better than none at all.

Better a broken promise than none at all. Mark Twain

is a thing best kept by not ever making it.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

is, from a gentleman, always to be trusted, for the word of a gentleman is as good as his bond, and sometimes better.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond... and sometimes better. Charles Dickens

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