Quotes About Expectations

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

Call no man happy before he dies.

Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.

My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda) What can I say? Artemis likes her Dark-Hunters tall. Short men need not apply. (Acheron)

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.