Langston Hughes
Poet, Novelist
"America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!"
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Oath
24 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Samuel Butler
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
"Oaths are but words, and words are but wind."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both."
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"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand"
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"No oath can be too binding for a lover."
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"I write a woman's oaths in water."
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"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water."
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"An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept."
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