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In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty. -- Pierre de Coubertin
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. -- Plato
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. -- Norman Douglas
The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. -- Solon
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. -- Aeschylus
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts. -- Robert Jordan
The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future. -- Mark McKinnon
The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath. -- Joseph Rotblat
Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others -- Ezekiel Emanuel
"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I wrote 'Oath' for Cher Lloyd because there were really no best-friend anthems out there. Not only did she love it, she wanted me to rap on it, too! -- Becky G
In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. -- Sam Houston
I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. I want to see people use safe, practical medicines. -- Chris Kilham
I've asked Justice Clarence Thomas to administer the Oath of Office, which I'm incredibly honored that he accepted as he's in his 25th year on the Supreme Court and has developed an extraordinary judicial record. -- Mike Pence
All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility. -- Steven Spielberg
The Writer's Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing self, and 3. to nurture the writing of others. I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always. -- Gail Carson Levine
To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter. -- George Washington
We do not fear the flame, though it burns us,We do not fear the fire, though it consumes us,And we do not fear its light,Though it reveals the darkness of our souls,For therein lies our power.-- Blood Oath of the Iron Elves -- Chris Evans
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that? -- Roy H. Williams
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
No one, by swearing, makes themselves an ounce more honest; any more than a man makes himself wealthy by counting his gold. Oaths may make a liar a liar yet again, having lied about the oath as well. But it cannot alter the worth of an honest man's word. -- Jake Yaniak
Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. -- James L. Buckley
Oaths are the fossils of piety. -- George Santayana
A liar is always lavish of oaths. -- Pierre Corneille
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. -- Samuel Butler
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. -- Samuel Johnson
Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt. -- Samuel Johnson
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. -- Eldridge Cleaver
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. -- William Shakespeare
It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. -- William Shakespeare
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. -- Robert Bolt
I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both. -- William Shakespeare
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known. -- John Knox
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy. -- Muhammad Ali
It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. -- William Shakespeare
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt. -- William Cowper
Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths. -- Jeremy Collier
The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. -- Laurence Sterne
For those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, it is a call of duty to take back America from a Commander-in-Chief that is incapable of understanding the sacrifices that have been made for the values that have made America great. -- Ryan Zinke
When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. -- Mitt Romney
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. -- Harry Houdini
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. -- Ronald Reagan
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. -- Simone Weil
Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath. -- John Roberts
In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. -- James L. Buckley
The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.' -- Richard Rogers
When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people. -- Ryan Reynolds
Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room. -- Eric Liu
I think the personal satisfaction of doing good in the community and increasing value and holding true to the Hippocratic oath and being able to provide services to those that are in need is very strong moral reason to provide services for the underserved. -- Raul Ruiz
As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest. -- Jackie Speier
Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care. -- Ami Bera
Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation. -- Robin Hayes
As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters. -- Michael Cadnum
The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama. -- Rahm Emanuel
A liar freely gives his oath -- Douglas Malloch
An oath-the strongest of religious ties. -- James Madison
Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure. -- William Shakespeare
No oath can be too binding for a lover. -- Sophocles
Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end. -- Rihanna
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. -- Solon
God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction. -- William Cowper
An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling. -- Veronica Rossi
America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on, -- Dennis Prager
It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master. -- John Dryden
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept. -- George Herbert
An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance. -- Anne Hutchinson
Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change. -- Marianne Moore
[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath America will be! -- Langston Hughes
If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation! -- George Bernard Shaw
No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be! -- Langston Hughes
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag. -- Seneca the Younger
Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between. -- Carl Sandburg
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand -- Mother Jones
I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this. -- Lech Walesa
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. -- Jack Steinberger
Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God. -- George Gillespie
When you take a solemn oath your heart and soul listens, then perception of consciousness and unity comes. -- Vasilios Karpos
The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth. -- Max Lucado
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When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth. -- Rafael Palmeiro
Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America. -- Frank Nugent
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. -- Ambrose Bierce
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice. -- Aeschylus
I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV. -- Craig Ferguson
Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth, -- Rafael Palmeiro
He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God. -- Plutarch
you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears. -- P. D. James
I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president. -- Chuck Hagel
An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes. -- Thomas Southerne
Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing. -- Philip Pullman
Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president. -- Linda Tripp
I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic oath. -- Chris Kilham
It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer. -- Christopher Hitchens
For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me. -- Homer
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago. -- Jane Byrne
The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment. -- Tom Coburn
The first thing [Donald Trump] does on January 20th is take an oath to defend and adhere to the Constitution of the United States. -- Chuck Todd
Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn -- William Shakespeare
I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction. -- Jan Brewer
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods. -- Sophocles
When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office. -- William J. Clinton
A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution. -- Clarence Thomas
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings. -- George W. Bush
All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power. -- Richard Rorty
If there was an arrow speeding toward Will, I would be bound by oath to step in front of it.' 'Handy, that,' said Will. -- Cassandra Clare
The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully. -- David Jeremiah
I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this [anti-terrorism] legislation fundamentally violates that oath. -- Bernie Sanders
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it. -- Tom Lehrer

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