Quote #71

:promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
  2. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
  3. She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
  4. That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.
  5. I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
  6. Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
  7. I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
  8. She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.

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