EXPECTATION

Related Subjects: Disappointment, Failure, Hope, Waiting

1. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.—AESOP, The Milkmaid and Her Pail
   

2. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.—CONGREVE
   

3. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.—DISRAELI, Henrietta Temple
   

4. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.—GEORGE ELIOT, Silas Marner
   

5. It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view, are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.—GOLDSMITH, The Vicitr of Wakefield
   

6. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.—POPE, Letter to Gay
   

7. Long looked for comes at last.—Proverb
   

8. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
   Where most it promises.—SHAKESPEARE, Air Well that Ends Well
   

9. He hath indeed better bettered expectation.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
   

10. 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear,
    Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were.—SIR JOHN SUCKLING, Against Fruition