Quotes
Quotes about Expectation
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
He hath indeed better bettered expectation.
They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.
'T is expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
To the last moment of his breath,
On hope the wretch relies;
And even the pang preceding death
Bids expectation rise.
A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.
His brain shuddered with memories, with expectations
It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside
Hope: Desire and expectation rolled into one.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
The Mountain in Labor A mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard, and crowds of people came from all parts to see what was the matter. While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible calamity, out came a Mouse. Don't make much ado about nothing.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Expectations are for the unsure.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense.
Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To tow'rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.
Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.
He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.
