Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 39
“A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.”
“I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.”
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
“Who doesn't have big hopes can't be disappointed.”
Quien no alberga grandes esperanzas no puede resultar decepcionado.
Patricia Conde's Fotolog http://www.fotolog.com/ohadri/21499931#, quoted from a magazine Ayer tuve un sueño (22 April 2010)
The John Clifford Lecture at Coventry (14 July 1930), published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 46.
1930
Context: There is a saying as old as the Greeks that it is more important to form good habits than to frame good laws. There is an undercurrent of suspicion that this is true and that, like patriotism, legislation is not enough. The hopes held out when laws are framed are not always realised when laws are passed... What happens to all the laws placed on the statute book? If half the hopes of their promoters had been realised, would not the millennium have arrived ere this?
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/86920.Buchi_Emecheta.
