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Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. Norman Douglas Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.PromisesQuotations by Norman Douglas
The Tennis Court Oath (1789) In the first days of the French Revolution, the deputies of the Third Estate were locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles. Believing that their newly formed National Assembly was to be disbanded, they met at a nearby tennis court and took an oath not separate until a constitution was established for France. The oath was an assertion ...
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. Solon Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.AristocracyQuotations by Solon
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. Samuel Johnson In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.EpitaphsQuotations by Samuel Johnson
"It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him." – William Shakespeare "It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him." - William Shakespeare