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Expectation Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
- The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends.…
- It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other…
- Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his…
More Expectation Quotes
- I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband… — Michele Bachmann
- Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a… — Henry David Thoreau
- Good things start happening to you the moment you stop expecting from life. — Nishan Panwar
- Expectation is the mother of all frustration. — Antonio Banderas
- If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that… — Cate Blanchett
- A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation… — Fanny Burney
- When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have — Stephen Hawking