“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

Thus with a kiss I die.

A light heart lives long.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

There’s an old saying that applies to me: you can’t lose a game if you don’t play the game.

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

Time does not have the same appeal for every one

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.

Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

When I come into a tournament, I’m expecting to win. That’s my philosophy. I can’t go to a tournament thinking, ‘I’m going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.’

I sacrificed you for life, hope, optimism. Do you expect me to regret that?

Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

In international cricket, the core group in most of the teams would remain same. So you know what’s expected, but they will operate in different conditions, which is why the homework about conditions is the key.