You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.
It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
