A Quote by Aeschylus

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

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Aeschylus
Greek - Poet
525 BC - 456 BC

A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

William Shakespeare

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

Edmund Waller

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog.

William Shakespeare

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

I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.

Mary Collyer

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

George Santayana

A liar is full of oaths.

Pierre Corneille

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.