Arnold H. Glasow Quotes

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

People told me, 'You talk about Europe like it's Heaven. It's not Heaven.

I think this idea of a big break is a lie.

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

expectation isn't the same as desire

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules. It's unhealthy to have a predisposed expectation of what you think a marriage should be - as this thing at the end of the rainbow. False expectations take away joy.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!