Expects

Famous quotes containing the word expects:

    Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed” was the ninth beatitude.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)