Quotes About Expectations

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

Every woman should marry - and no man.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.

Advice to son: Never confuse "I love you" with "I want to marry you."

You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

When a man opens the car door for his wife it's either a new car or a new wife.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

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.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.

People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.

Men expect too much, do too little.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.