The anticipation of evil courts evil [ Mme. Deluzy ]
Anticipation and Hope are born twins. [ Rousseau ]
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. [ Bruyere ]
I am giddy; expectation whirls me around.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense. [ William Shakespeare ]
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. [ George Eliot ]
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered. [ Bovee ]
None are happy but by anticipation of change. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. [ Lao-Tze ]
It is expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. [ John Suckling ]
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. [ Porteus ]
We expect everything, and are prepared for nothing. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation. [ Racine ]
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much. [ Fontenelle ]
Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs. [ Crabbe ]
All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. [ William Shakespeare ]
The anticipation of pleasure often equals the pleasure itself. [ Fabre d'Eglantine ]
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises. [ William Shakespeare ]
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. [ Herder ]
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering. [ Quintilian ]
Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. [ Goethe ]
After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. [ Balzac ]
What need a man forestall his date of grief, and run to meet what he would most avoid? [ Milton ]
I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery. [ Schiller ]
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. [ Cicero ]
We can but ill endure, among so many sad realities, to rob anticipation of its pleasant visions. [ Henry Giles ]
I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. [ Spectator ]
There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives? [ Seneca ]
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than expectation. [ Feltham ]
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. [ Henry Home ]
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
The poetry of the ancients was that of possession, ours is that of aspiration; the former stands fast on the soil of the present, the latter hovers between memory and anticipation. [ Schlegel ]
The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens. [ Metastasio ]