Quotes About Expectations

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

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

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.