Quotes About Expectation

We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

There is no data on the future.

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.

And now, Lord, what wait I for?

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

June's too soon, July's too late - for summer.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.

There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

"Plain English" - everybody loves it, demands it - from the other fellow.

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!