Quotes About Expectations

To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful" ~ Carl Gustav Jung (1987-1961) as cited in Anthony Stevens

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

In Meyer's view, delaying closure is one way in which composers contradict the listener's expectations and increase his degree of arousal. If

Our expectation that satisfying intimate relationships should, ideally, provide happiness and that, if they do not, there must be something wrong with those relationships, seems to be exaggerated. . . It may be our idealization of interpersonal relationships in the West that causes marriage, supposedly the most intimate tie, to be so unstable. If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

A female is usually good as a daughter but often not good as a wife

A female is usually good as a daughter but very rarely good as a wife

A hardworking employee should work for merely own heart's satisfaction in a private organisation, but never with an expectation that the employer will either appreciate rightly or appraise correctly his performance to award him justly for the excellent job done; else the first the frustration will creep in into his professional life & then he will slip into depression.

A husband ought to apologize always first even when he is correct & should never expect his wife to accept her mistake ever. That's how she and those men having the lust define the concept of the 'WOMEN's RESPECT'.

A husband who is truly good in all likelihood would not be liked by his wife because several evidence shows that a woman normally loves to have a bad man on her bed

A man should not marry a woman unless and until he is confident to reach to the level of selfishness that she has.

A man who doesn't marry does favour to himself solely ,but a woman who doesn't wed does often an obligation to a person who has to marry her only.

A man who expects the woman to say sorry first on her mistakes only and does not want to carry the loads of worry on his head, should never marry even when given an option of a fairy from the heaven.

A man whose wife admires him on social media even after five years of their wedding is more to be worried of his spent married life than a husband whose spouse often remains disgruntled with him.

A man, who unconditionally does agree to the unstated clause that it is only he who has to say always SORRY and never she under any damn situation, is only eligible and entitle to marry a woman.

A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn't deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn't desire in all.

A person who can't define the friendship properly is already entrapped in a wrong relationship deeply with the people.