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Quotes About Expectations

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
~ Albert Ellis
The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.
~ Joe Ehrmann
You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.
~ Chris Rock
No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
~ Eric Berne
When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
~ Helen Rowland
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
~ George Orwell
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
~ Francoise Sagan
A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.
~ Mariama Bâ
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
~ H. L. Mencken
Balls are to men what purses are to women.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
~ John Steinbeck
Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.
~ Hedy Lamarr
When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
~ Franz Schubert
I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.
~ Eartha Kitt
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
One thing you never hear is "Man that guy is good at badminton".
~ Demetri Martin
It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best
~ Jane Austen
If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you. You need to have lips - they are important for getting men.
~ Isabella Blow
You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
~ Heinrich Heine
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I'm just doing better than what everybody projected.
~ Big Sean