Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~ Aristotle

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. ~ Regina Nadelson

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting. ~ Carly Simon

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. ~ Herodotus

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

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~ W. E. Johns

Life needs mystery or else everything else flattens into a routine so familiar you wonder if you will ever get out of the rut. We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. ~ Dave Kindred

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you. ~ Baltasar Gracián

If pleasures are the greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. ~ Charles Dudley Warner