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Quotes About Expectations

Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.
~ Clea Duvall
Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.
~ Coco Chanel
Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.
~ E. W. Howe
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
~ Ernestine Rose
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
~ Evan Esar
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
~ George Santayana
The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.
~ Gloria Steinem
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
~ Gustave Flaubert
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
~ Aeschylus
I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.
~ Andrew Rannells
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
~ Benjamin Jowett
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
~ Bertrand Russell
If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.
~ Brenda Ueland
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
~ Clarence Darrow
[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.
~ David Crosby
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.
~ Eva Figes
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
~ H. L. Mencken
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
~ Hanna Rosin
You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.
~ Helen Reddy
You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.
~ Tennessee Williams