<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Circumstance - 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[To leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell Signior Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa and is here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8723]]></link><description><![CDATA[To leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell Signior Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa and is here at the door to speak with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. [Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. [Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So runs the round of life from hour to hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8727]]></link><description><![CDATA[So runs the round of life from hour to hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8728]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8730]]></link><description><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8709]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8710]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances alter cases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances alter cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8714]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8715]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8716]]></link><description><![CDATA[For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. [Lat., Consilia res magis dant hominibus quam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. [Lat., Consilia res magis dant hominibus quam homines rebus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the creature of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the creature of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; whose strength   I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not    You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find     You need it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd instances of strange coincidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odd instances of strange coincidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   Oft gives our life its after-tinge.    The trifles of our daily lives,     The common things, scarce worth recall,      Whereof no visible trace survives,       These are the mainsprings after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along  Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8701]]></link><description><![CDATA[And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along  Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,   Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse--borne away with every breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse--borne away with every breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long arm of coincidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long arm of coincidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8705]]></link><description><![CDATA[By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8705</guid></item></channel></rss>