Oaths Quotes

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

Society, Free, Secret

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Samuel Butler

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
Herodotus

Men, Place, Another

Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana

A liar is always lavish of oaths.
Pierre Corneille

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
Sophocles

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Aeschylus

Love, Nature, Woman

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
Aeschylus

Win, Unjust, Case

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.
Peter Singer

Health, Best, Care

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.
Maria Monk

Everything, Impossible, She

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.
Steve Winwood

Life, Marriage, Problems

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Cannot, Language, Shall

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