Samuel Goldwyn Quotes

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.

I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.

Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill.

I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations.

I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.

Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you.

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

Make no contracts that will bind me.

A wise man should constantly discharge the paramount duties, but not always the minor ones; for he who does not discharge the former, while he obeys the latter alone, becomes an outcast.

May Honor be given to whom Honor may be due.

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should he committed to writing, and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

It doesn't do us any good to get paper agreements that collapse.

When a party shall make bond or conveyance, what he has named by word-of-mouth that shall hold good

Since human memory is short and does not suffice for a crowd of things, the authority of those who preceded our age, the divine emperors and kings, has decreed that those things were to be written down which the progress of fleeting time generally removes from the knowledge of men.

Marriage is reckon’d a lay contract in Carolina.

Circumstances may require a dissolution of contracts founded on the most binding and sacred obligations…which dissolution ought not to be dependent on private will, but should require legislative interference; inasmuch as the republic is deeply interested in the private business of its citizens.

[Marriage is] something more than a mere contract. It is rather to be deemed an institution of society, founded upon consent and contract of the parties.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

The foresight goggles have been discontinued. They fog up a lot.

We need to have some people fired for reasons of public trust.