A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
No Doctor I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.
When somebody tells you nothing is impossible ask him to dribble a football.
The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.
So often we search out the impossible and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Prospect is often better than possession.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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