Quotes About Expectations

A woman can be judged by her cooking, her dressing and her husband.

Do not run into debt with a rich man, or promise anything to a poor one.

Don't praise your wife before a year.

Marriage is functional in which the woman must cook the food every day and the man has to eat it every day.

Never expect anything from those who don't love and care about you and those who really do will already fulfil your expectations before you wish.

Nobody loves the way he ought to, he loves the way he has to or is allowed to.

Students are the only consumers who do not want what they pay for.

The man trying to find a horse or a wife without fault has neither steed in his stable nor angel in his bed.

To try to make somebody love you is as hard as to try to walk on snow leaving no footprints.

When a man doesn't go straight home, his wife's remarks do.

You can complain about the house where the husband is the wife.

Your life can get better if you realize it is better never to expect anything from anyone, not even from God.

So I have a horror of success.

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing.

Don't be a little fool,' he said curtly. 'It really is time you started to enjoy being a woman, and if there weren't enjoyment in it the human race would have come to an end a long time ago.' 'As if men ever cared one way or the other,' she rejoined. 'All most of you care about are sex symbols to gawk at, and maternal types to see after your comforts. I don't know into what category I fit, unless it's paramour!

Everyone now knows that marriage is not the only route to fulfillment, but the media and the internet tell of more lonely hearts and solitary singles than ever before.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Women are not supposed to take up much room, or to go very far from home, or to stay away for long. They are not supposed to be by themselves. They are supposed to hear and obey, to come back when they are called.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'une fille est vieille et moche qu'elle est moins chiante et exigeante qu'une bombasse de vingt ans. Ce qui caractérise les femmes, c'est qu'elles peuvent faire profil bas pendant des mois avant d'annoncer la couleur.

We don't kill women who've been raped, but we do expect them to have the decency to show that they are damaged goods, that they have been polluted. They may become hookers, or ugly, whatever, as long as they spontaneously exit the marriage market.

Seduction is within the reach of most young women, as long as they agree to play the game, because it mostly consists of reassuring men about their virility by playing the femininity game.

I am not saying that being a woman is in itself a painful constraint. Some women do it very well. It's the obligation which is degrading. Of course the great seductresses are right up there in terms of reputation. Figure skaters are pretty cool, too -- but no one expects us all to be figure skaters. Horsewomen have their own special charm -- but you don't get given a saddle and bridle the moment you want to exist.

People who have kids are constantly boring the shit out of people who haven't. But they can't stand it if you tell them the truth – when I look at your life it makes me want to do anything but.