Variant: Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“no expectations, no disappointments!”
Sleeping with Strangers
“Plant your lands and reap; these be your best gold fields, for all must eat while they live.”
Archives Santa Cruz, MS., 107; quoted in Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, vol. VI (1890), ch. V, pp. 65-66
“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.”
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.”
2010s, 2010, The joys of losing (2010)
The Crisis No. IV.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
