Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity the marriage is more important than fidelity.

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

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.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect considering their value on the personality market.

There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

I love argument I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me that's not their job.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Never try to impress a woman because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy healthy and rewarding life.