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Eric Jerome Dickey 16
American author 1961Related quotes
“Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment.”
Variant: Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.”
Cinda Williams Chima
(1952) Novelist
Variant: Don't expect much, and you won't be disappointed.
Source: The Wizard Heir
“The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.”
Charles Krauthammer
(1950–2018) American journalist
2010s, 2010, The joys of losing (2010)
“Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.”
George Washington
(1732–1799) first President of the United States
Letter to George William Fairfax (25 June 1786), published in The Writings Of George Washington (1835) by Jared Sparks, p. 175
1780s
Context: My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
Sylvia Plath
book
The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 5
“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”
Alexander Pope
(1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Letter, written in collaboration with John Gay, to William Fortescue (23 September 1725).
A similar remark was made in a letter to John Gay (16 October 1727): "I have many years magnify'd in my own mind, and repeated to you a ninth Beatitude, added to the eight in the Scripture: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Variant: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Context: "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.