a promise made is a promise kept
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[edit]Proverb
[edit]a promise made is a promise kept
- A promise that one makes should be or can be considered a promise that one will certainly honor.
- 2009, Wolfgang Mieder, "Yes We Can": Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric[1], page 289:
- We'll never rise together if we allow medical bills to swallow family budgets or let people retire penniless after a lifetime of hard work, and so today we must demand that when it comes to commitments made [to] working men and women on health care and pensions, a promise made is a promise kept.
Translations
[edit]a promise should be honored
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Further reading
[edit]- “promise”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.