The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace. H. L. Mencken
By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. Jeanette Winterson
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. Havelock Ellis
[T]his species works intentionally on its own destruction (by war). This, however, does not keep the rational creatures of such a constantly advancing culture, even in the midst of war, from promising to mankind in coming centuries an unequivocal prospect of bliss which will never end. Immanuel Kant
I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner! Richard Quest
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. Mary Astell