A Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian - Educator
November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942

"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

Benjamin Franklin

Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Jonathan Swift

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Alexander Pope

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

Roald Dahl

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

Tonya Hurley

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.

Michelle Dockery

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Laurence Overmire

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

Edgar Cayce

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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