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Jenne Phuong
2021-05-27 12:05
Promises are like pie crust, easily made, easily broken proverb
Promises are compared to pie crust because they are thin and easily broken. "Pie crust" can be written as a single word.
Promises are easily made but people hardly keep them.
Don't believe in his words. You should know that promises are like pie crust, easily made, easily broken.
Son: "I promise you I will study harder for the next exam. I don't want to disappoint you again". Mom: "I just want to see your practical action because promises are like pie crust, easily made, easily broken."
The first recorded use of this expression is by Ridens on Aug 16, 1681: "He makes no more of breaking Acts of Parliaments, than if they were like Promises and Pie-crust, made to be broken."
The internet has little in the way of information on the life of Heraclitus Ridens but a glance at his writings shows him to have been an essayist, poet, and satirist. The chances are that he was named for the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus.
However, Irish writer and satirist Jonathan Swift popularized the expression in his 1738 book, Polite Conversation, and thus is often attributed to being the author of it.
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