Expected benefits.
Misfortunes should always be expected. [ Johnson ]
A gift much expected is paid, not given. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A pleasure long expected is dear enough sold. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
From great folks great favours are to be expected. [ Cervantes ]
It is in vain to use words when deeds are expected. [ Proverb ]
It is always nice to be expected and not to arrive. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
No golden age ever called itself golden, but only expected one. [ Jean Paul ]
It is the danger which is least expected that soonest comes to us. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]
A paradisiacal temper is not to be expected from postdiluvian mortals. [ Proverb ]
The hour of happiness will come the more welcome when it is not expected. [ Horace ]
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master. [ Martial ]
When we meet with a natural style, we are surprised and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and we have found a man. [ Pascal ]
When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean. [ Alan Turing ]
Eloquence may be found in conversation and all kinds of writings; it is rarely where we seek it, and sometimes where it is least expected. [ La Bruyere ]
To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There is perhaps no time at which we are disposed to think so highly of a friend, as when we find him standing higher than we expected in the esteem of others. [ Sir W. Scott ]
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; except in the cases of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in reality no longer expected or recognised as a virtue among men. [ Carlyle ]
All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. [ Sir W. Temple ]
More marriages are ruined nowadays by the common sense of the husband than by anything else. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
What with the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or pleasure. It gives one position and prevents one from keeping it up. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled. [ Johnson ]