He that sends a fool expects one. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

England expects every man to do his duty. [ Horatio Nelson ]

The hare starts when a man least expects it. [ Proverb ]

He who plants a walnut tree expects not to eat of the fruit. [ Proverb ]

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. [ Swift ]

Duty is what one expects from others - it is not what one does oneself. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

He who knows not how to bestow a benefit is unreasonable if he expects one. [ Publius Syrus ]

An old proverb attributes happiness to him who expects little and thereby avoids disappointment. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man. [ Lavater ]

It is the welfare of the whole from which every patriotic, and even every selfish, soul expects its own. [ Gentz ]

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past. [ Wendell Phillips ]

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. [ Shenstone ]

Patron or Customer? These nouns are generally used indiscriminately. A patron is a virtual benefactor; one who countenances, aids, or supports. A customer is a purchaser, or buyer, who expects in return for his money full value received. Hence it is erroneous for a merchant to say, He is a patron of mine, when he means simply a customer. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]