<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Expectation - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64931]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64726]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62791]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot  Ofttimes I hover;   And near the sacred gate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot  Ofttimes I hover;   And near the sacred gate,    With longing eyes I wait,     Expectant of her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14637]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet  That it enchants my sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet  That it enchants my sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,  To tow'rs and windows, yea, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,  To tow'rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops,   Your infants in your arms, and there have sat    The livelong day, with patient expectation,     To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14634]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14635]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;  I rave no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;  I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,   For lo! my own shall come to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14622]]></link><description><![CDATA["Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14625]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love;  To build a new life on a ruined life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love;  To build a new life on a ruined life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall no more divide us;   And I no more shall scale thy wall by night    To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits  Where hope is coldest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits  Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger always comes from frustrated expectations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger always comes from frustrated expectations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14616]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14617]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376]]></link><description><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376</guid></item></channel></rss>