Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:   promise

My tongue swore, but my mind’s unsworn.
~Euripides

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
~Mohandas Gandhi

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn’t count for much.
~Kristin Hannah

EndQuote:
When a man takes an oath… he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then — he needn’t hope to find himself again.
~Robert Bolt

 

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Exercise Prompt for 11/29:   spice

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Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
~Thomas Fuller

A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises.
~Euripides

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
~Niccolò Machiavelli

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.
~Jennifer Donnelly

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
~Thomas Fuller

As a human being, the best eulogy I can reasonably hope for is “He made his promises sincerely and broke them regretfully.”
~Robert Brault

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Posted from the Grove

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
~H L Mencken

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
~Gilbert Highet

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.
~Spiro T Agnew

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don’t like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.
~Franklin P Adams

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
~Niccolò Machiavelli

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

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
~Carl Jung

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The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
~Jane Byrne

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
~William Lyon MacKenzie

This is the first convention of the space age — where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
~Author Unknown

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax dollar will go further.
~Wernher von Braun

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~Tanya Davis/Andrea Dorfman:  *How To Be At Home   (4:56)   picture poem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT40Rmjwd-Q&t=145s

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~Donato Sansone:  BAVURE (Brush stroke)   (4:42)   visual adventure
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/480816485

 

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America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
~Nelson Rockefeller

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

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

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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VIDEO:

People with good intentions make promises, but people with good character keep them.
~Joubert Botha

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.
~Anthony Hitt

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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
~Peter F Drucker

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
~Abraham Lincoln

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.
~Haruki Murakami

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

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~Omeleto:  1500 Words   (8:45)   promise and thankful are three words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-waMtGtxAdg

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~highcottonfilms:  Salt – A Thanksgiving Story   (2:58)   sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1QC2_2l9ug&t=1s

 

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We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
~François de la Rochefoucault

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
~Mae West

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
~William Dean Howells

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
~Arabian Proverb

I believe that it is better to light one candle than promise a million light bulbs.
~Stephen Harper

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.
~Robert Brault

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
~Aeschylus

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

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
~Bruce Greenwood

Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction…I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and heartaches…I got over you. But, I guess I fibbed a few times too. Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby, here I am without you, and I survived.
~Lil Wayne

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.
~Leo Buscaglia

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MUSIC:

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
~Samuel Butler

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
~Danish Proverb

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
~Edgar Watson Howe

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
~Marilyn vos Savant

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don’t care how many Bibles you put your hand on.
~Paul Castellano

Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
~Holly Black

Some things you don’t have to promise. You just do.
~Rick Yancey

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Love is free; to promise forever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.
~Shirley MacLaine

Love is a promise delivered already broken.
~Steve Martin

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
~Emmanuel Teney

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
~William Makepeace Thackeray

“Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said. “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
~John Green

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~Radiohead:  I Promise   (4:02)   no more running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sFvFVkeGVg

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~Chris Cornell:  The Promise   (5:00)   we/US/our reason to be thankful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEpwvvyrAJU

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~Cock Robin:  The Promise You Made   (3:58)   lively street, ghostly studio sets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pk3A_QSINI

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~Eric Clapton:  Promises   (2:54)   jet set setting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0lYylxpAQY

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~Sami Yusuf:  Forgotten Promises   (5:25)   feed the need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKV2oeS4vw8

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~Badflower:  Promise Me   (5:51)   love of life for life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhNp7i4xaUU

 

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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree — they bear no fruit.
~Francis Marion

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise.
~Steve Maraboli

I begin to understand the promises of this world are for the most part, vain phantoms; and that to confide in one’s self and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
~Michelangelo

People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.
~Leon Brown

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Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
~Mary Anne Radmacher

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
~Nhat Hanh

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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.
~German Proverb

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Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.
~Author Unknown

Liars make the best promises.
~Pierce Brown

A liar is always lavish of oaths.
~Pierre Corneille

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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There ain’t no such thing as a bargain promise.
~Cormac McCarthy

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
~Dutch Proverb

For every promise, there is price to pay.
~Jim Rohn

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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
~Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
~Chief Joseph

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
~Stephen Ambrose

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
~Chief Joseph

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
~Buffalo Bill

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.
~John Connolly

Time, bring back
The rapturous ignorance of long ago,
The peace, before the dreadful daylight starts,
Of unkept promises and broken hearts.
~John Betjeman

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Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.
~Author Unknown

If you break little promises, you’ll break big ones.
~Cormac McCarthy

Every man of courage is a man of his word.
~Pierre Corneille

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@Writers Platform

One promises much, to avoid giving little.
~Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
~Theodore Parker

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
~Edmund Burke

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.
~Proverb

I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.
~Author Unknown

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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
~Sydney J Harris

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
~Abraham Lincoln

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Promise little and do much.
~Hebrew Proverb

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown

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Glass Table:   Contest Entry

~thoreau:
Last Day of Staycation

One final “home project” for this last day of our staycation week: weeding the driveway. It’s pretty hard-packed pebbles, good for absorbing the winter rains, but over the years plenty of tiny weeds, clumps of grass, etc have taken root. It’s warm but not hot today, so I put on a sunhat, start the poetry podcast playlist on my iPod, grab a bucket, sit down on a short stool, and start picking.

Every few minutes, having pulled every weed in reach, I shift the stool a couple of feet and continue. It becomes a rhythm, practically a meditation.

Some oregano from the herb garden in the corner by the sidewalk has started to put out new sprouts into the driveway. I decide to leave them alone, and let it continue to spread where it can — I’ve noticed a pleasant Mediterranean crushed-herb scent lately whenever I get out of the car, which seems like a good thing. The white and purple clovers as well, I leave alone. The bees like them, and I use the green strips as a target in the rear view mirror when backing into the driveway. One final “home project” for this last day of our staycation week: weeding the driveway. It’s pretty hard-packed pebbles, good for absorbing the winter rains, but over the years plenty of tiny weeds, clumps of grass, etc have taken root. It’s warm but not hot today, so I put on a sunhat, start the poetry podcast playlist on my iPod, grab a bucket, sit down on a short stool, and start picking.

Every few minutes, having pulled every weed in reach, I shift the stool a couple of feet and continue. It becomes a rhythm, practically a meditation.

Some oregano from the herb garden in the corner by the sidewalk has started to put out new sprouts into the driveway. I decide to leave them alone, and let it continue to spread where it can — I’ve noticed a pleasant Mediterranean crushed-herb scent lately whenever I get out of the car, which seems like a good thing. The white and purple clovers as well, I leave alone. The bees like them, and I use the green strips as a target in the rear view mirror when backing into the driveway.

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a break in the rain

raking the fallen (deep crimson) maple leaves
during a break in the rain,
the (bright green) rain-swollen moss
is as happy to see the sun again
as I am

 

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God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.
~David Nicholas

No pillow so soft as God’s promise.
~Author Unknown

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
~Dwight L Moody

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
~Martin Luther

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.
~William Tyndale

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Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
~John Guare

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
~Evelyn Waugh

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
~David Bowie

 

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Exercise Prompt:   promise

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Works of serious purpose and grand promises often have a purple patch or two stitched on, to shine far and wide.
~Horace

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

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
~Thornton Wilder

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

Matters Most

Wasn’t love promised
Nor kinship
Not even friendship
But ears that listened
Caring eyes to witness

Not ready love so easily offered
But hands that helped
Empathetic arms to lift and hold
Wed to legs and a willing back
Cheerful will and strength to carry

Good food to feed one
Taste treats to tempt one
Fine wines to warm one
Puddings to thrill one
Feasted instead just being near you

Wasn’t words that healed you
Not vows that helped you
Nor laws to protect you
Or favor select you
But need connects you

Torn down walls
Bricks for bridges
Acts of kindness
Not words of love
That matter most
Who watch above

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Mere Words

Promise, like a door to a gift to be opened
A bank for the future in times of ill-fortune
Or a promise like eggs meant to be broken
Like words without legs never reaching a goal
Word-keeper, life master, lighthouse in disaster
Words dead on the ground, mimed lies of a clown

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Dual Doggerels Dueling #23

Round One: Knockout

Old time promise, gifts of rosy dawning
Now daylight breaks on a dying world
Peaked palettes of bleak greet the morning

Fierce fiery threat of a terminal sunset
No hope for the planet, no rally, no bet
No time for a eulogy, no pause, moving on

Nightmares awake, shattering quakes
Temperatures rising, fevers of plague
Broken world rends, surrenders and ends

Round Two: Rematch

Let the healing begin with humanity’s passing
Old world returning, renewed from its grave
New world’s advance demands a new world’s chance

Scrubbed clean of man’s pride and greedy malignance
Augmented by ignorance, laws of karma and consequence
Universe City College, Studies in: Sins Born Innocent

Immortal lessons, gifts of mortality and immoral vision
Class of Good, Classless Evil and the Wisdom of One
Rebirth of Earth, returned avatars home from the stars

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5-7-5

the promise of love
vital preliminary
to saying goodbye

 

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
~George Bernard Shaw

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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone’s letter.
~Chinese Proverb

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future…
~Hannah Arendt

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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
~Proverb

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Life didn’t promise to be wonderful.
~Teddy Pendergrass

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

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Impartial: unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
~Ambrose Bierce

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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
~Mark Twain

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The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

 

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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
~William Hazlitt

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A vow is a snare for sin.
~Samuel Johnson

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

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

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Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
~A A Milne

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
~Robert Frost

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

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
~Wayne Dyer

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*Thx to: Rusty’s Electric Dreams

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