“You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.”
“Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. I was too young for one war and too old for the next one. But I seen what come out of it. You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than they’re worth. Ask them Gold Star mothers what they paid and what they got for it. You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.”
“If I keep my promises to the Lord, He will always keep His promises to me. He [will] always fulfill His end of the bargain—and much, much more—if I fulfill mine.”
“Did I promise you too much?”
“I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die.”
“For every promise, there is a price to pay... If the promise is clear, the price is easy...”