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Quotes About Expectations

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.
~ Bill Vaughan
Why is the 'average man' so far below average?
~ Bruce Barnbaum
I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.
~ Carrie Fisher
What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.
~ Cathy Crimmins
I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.
~ Chad Stahelski
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.
~ Charles Dickens
Outside of taking care of a man's needs, women don't get much pleasure out of life, anyways.
~ Charles Willeford
A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I hate when men think that money is gonna buy you happiness... I mean, it helps.
~ Chelsea Handler
Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.
~ Clarence Benjamin Jones
If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.
~ Conan O'Brien
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
~ Confucius
Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.
~ Cynthia Heimel
If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.
~ Daniel Barenboim
Men are always looking for what's better and women are just looking for what works.
~ Daryl Wein
Oh, no, it can't be teardrops 'Cause a man ain't supposed to cry.
~ Dee Clark
A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
~ Doris Lessing
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
~ Douglas Adams
To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.
~ Drew Barrymore
Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.
~ Ellen Glasgow
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
~ Faye Wattleton