quotes on expectations

Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it. ~Author Unknown



Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?" ~Author Unknown



I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume. ~John Van Druten I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. ~Margi Clark



Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man, never to behold the sun's scorching rays; but if one is born, then one is to press as quickly as possible to the portals of Hades, and rest there under the earth. ~Thiognis



You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. ~Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker



Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. ~James McNeill Whistler, Whistler Versus Ruskin, 1878



It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism. ~Charles Osgood



Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ~William Lloyd Garrison



Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. ~Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated



Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless. ~Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth



People come to Washington believing it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine. ~Richard Goodwin



It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain



The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. ~Fanny Fern



If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. ~Author Unknown



The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell. ~Martin H. Fischer



If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)



In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. ~Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906



Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. ~Anais Nin



Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin



I'm not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on. ~Roseanne Barr