Quotes About Expectations

I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

When we got married, we agreed on a boy for me, and a girl for you. Mine's upstairs sleeping. Good luck with yours!

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satisfying puts me in a constant state of suspension.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

If you think marriage is going to be perfect, you're probably still at your reception.

When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Marriage, at first, may seem like it will last forever. But surprisingly, a lot of the times, it shatters easily. Like porcelain.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

I think I should date a normal girl. I am tired of dating heroines. While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.

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

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays.

Most marriage failures are caused by failures marrying.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.