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Quotes About Expectation

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
~ Vanna Bonta
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you
~ Ogden Nash
Middle Age - Later than you think and sooner than you expect.
~ Earl Wilson
Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.
~ Bob Hope
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of sh.. that it demanded.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
~ Charles Dickens
I always wait for the Times each morning. I look at the obituary column and if I?m not in it, I go to work.
~ Unknown
Hope is the dream of the waking man.
~ Aristotle
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Cos it's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'Aaaaaagghhh!!' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.
~ Tommy Cooper
Those prizes in Cracker Jacks are a joke. I once got a magnifying glass. It was so poorly made, ants were laughing at it.
~ Unknown
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
~ Don Marquis
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
~ Will Rogers
I said I'd be there in 5 minutes. Quit calling me every half hour.
~ Unknown
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
When a woman asks you to guess her age, it's like deciding whether to cut the blue, red, or green wire to diffuse a bomb.
~ Unknown
Women don't care. We care about nice arms, great eyes, a big di..... I've never once heard a woman say: He had such a big full scrotum.
~ Sex and the City
When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either. Something always goes wrong with the cheese souffle.
~ Unknown
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
~ Sara Teasdale
Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
~ Mae West
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
~ Ovid
He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
A girl phoned me the other day and said ... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home.
~ Rodney Dangerfield