What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. Seneca
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. Elbert G Hubbard
There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. Alfred Hitchcock
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Norman Cousins
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. John Maynard Keynes
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. Samuel Johnson
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. Henry David Thoreau