All about me,you,and our promise

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.  ~Harold Geneen

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. ~Benjamin Franklin

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.  ~Benjamin Franklin

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. ~John Burroughs

A politician is known by the promises he keeps.  ~Author Unknown

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~Bill Cosby

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?  ~Chuck Palahniuk

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn’t be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers

But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep…
~Robert Frost

April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ~Hal Borland

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.  ~Karl Popper

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ~Fareed Zakaria

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.  ~Marcel Proust

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ~Simone Weil

Politicians are the same all over.  They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.  ~Nikita Khrushchev

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. 
~Samuel Johnson

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.  ~George Washington