Expectations

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do

Life is largely a matter of expectation

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.