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Quotes About Anticipation

June's too soon, July's too late - for summer.
~ Siberian saying
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.
~ Monica Baldwin
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
~ Thomas Fuller
There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
~ John Keats
I always read the last page of a book first, so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
~ Nora Ephron
Prosperity is just around the corner.
~ Herbert Hoover
There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!
~ Alice Caldwell Rice
T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
~ Josh Billings
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.
~ Marie Bashkirtseff
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
~ Honore de Balzac
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
~ James Russell Lowell
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
~ James Reston
The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.
~ Mike Mansfield
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
~ William Ralph Inge
Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.
~ Russell Green
Make'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
~ Charles Reade
Hamej, merrini këto valixhe. Të rënda? Janë mbushur me pritje...
~ Ismail Kadare
Svak želi više, traži bolje ili strepi od goreg.
~ Ivo Andri?
Najbednija i najtragi?nija od svih ?ovekovih slabosti nesumnjivo je njegova potpuna nesposobnost predvi?anja, koja je u oštroj protivnosti sa tolikim njegovim darovima, veštinama i znanjima.
~ Ivo Andri?
Tako obicno biva. Oni koje zelimo da vidimo ne dolaze u casovima kad na njih mislimo i kad ih najvise ocekujemo, a pojavljuju se u nekom trenutku kad smo mislima najdalje od njih.
~ Ivo Andri?