Joseph Roux Quotes

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

I don't have any expectations.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.