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Quotes About Expectation

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
~ Ovid
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
~ Richard Whately
Working for the Man seemed really good to me.
~ Shepard Smith
Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
~ Steven Moffat
When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.
~ Thomas Hartwell Horne
When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.
~ Tina Fey
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
~ Washington Irving
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
~ William Butler Yeats
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
~ William Shakespeare
So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
~ Yingluck Shinawatra
Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!
~ Allen Tate
The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.
~ Amy Richards
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
~ C. S. Lewis
The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.
~ Saadi
I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.
~ Sylvia Plath
Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
~ T. S. Eliot
Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
~ William Greenough Thayer Shedd
Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.
~ Jean-Antoine Houdon
All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.
~ Joan Hackett