Quotes About Expectations

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

You have to believe love is unconditional before you can actually start meeting its conditions.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love, bottling

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Valentines Day is a masochistic holiday. If you're in a relationship, then this is the one day you're supposed to say 'I love you', and send gifts to ensure that it means more than the other 364 days of the year; and if you're single, you feel misera

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Love is so much better when you're not married.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

In society, the emphasis is more on creating a family, but not on will you be a good family man.

People won't like me for saying it but a major cause of marital problems today are men who want to remain boys, and women who want to be men.

Disney movies also taught me that my main goal in life, is to find a fu..ing prince and marry him.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show them up.

Many people marry for the wrong reasons, among them 1) To overcome loneliness. 2) To escape an unhappy parental home. 3) Because they think that everyone is expected to marry. 4) Because only 'losers' who can't find someone to marry stay single. 5) Out of a need to parent, or be parented by another person. 6) Because they got pregnant. 7) Because 'we fell in love,' ...and on goes the list.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Marriage is like a phonograph record. You get what you like on one side and take what you get on the other.

Its risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.