Quotes About Expectations

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect lover.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody-I don't know who or what-maybe myself. I have feelings some days when there are scenes with a lot of responsiblity, and I'll wish, gee, if only I would have been a cleaning woman.

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact--intact and on two feet.

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

Women say all men are the same, but they have no problem telling you how different you are from Mel Gibson.

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

If you were everything a woman wanted, she wouldn't want you anymore.

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.