"The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born." - HORACE, Ars Poetica

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude." - ALEXANDER POPE, letter (1725)

"Oft expectation fails and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits."
- SHAKESPEARE, All's Well That Ends Well