Promise

A promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something.

In the law of contract, an exchange of promises is usually held to be legally enforceable, according to the Latin maxim pacta sunt servanda.

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Famous quotes containing the word promise:

    “I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)