Circumstances alter cases. [ Haliburton ]
Circumstances! I make circumstances. [ Napoleon I ]
And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance. [ Tennyson ]
I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse - borne away with every breath. [ Byron ]
Circumstances over which I have no control. [ Duke of Wellington ]
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own. [ Cowley ]
Cause and effect are the chancellors of God. [ Emerson ]
A prudent man should neglect no circumstances. [ Sophocles ]
Circumstances do not make men: they discover them. [ Lamennais ]
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! [ Washington Irving ]
Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us. [ Thackeray ]
It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. [ Epictetus ]
Upright, whether in prosperous or in critical circumstances. [ Motto ]
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. [ Emerson ]
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition. [ Wordsworth ]
Circumstances that render us frail, only show how frail we are. [ Mme. de Choiseul ]
There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity. [ Burke ]
We are surrounded, ambushed, by the robber troops of circumstances. [ Hafiz ]
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. [ Livy ]
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little circumstances. [ Gibbon ]
The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore. [ Bovee ]
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us. [ Bovee ]
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. [ Balzac ]
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men. [ Byron ]
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. [ Samuel Lover ]
Circumstances are beyond the control of a man, but his conduct is in his own power. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]
He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary. [ Plautus ]
There are few circumstances in which it is not best either to hide all or to tell all. [ La Bruyère ]
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men. [ Horace Mann ]
Who does the best his circumstance allows, does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. [ Young ]
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. [ Goldsmith ]
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. [ Daniel Webster ]
Circumstance, that unspiritual god and miscreator, makes and helps along our coming evils. [ Byron ]
For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind. [ Seneca ]
The vision of the Divine Presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form. [ Landor ]
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations. [ Richter ]
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own producing. [ Goldsmith ]
Money is like an icicle, soon found at certain seasons, and soon melted under other circumstances. [ Spurgeon ]
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]
There are in the world circumstances which give us for masters men of whom we would not make our valets. [ Mme. Roland ]
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. [ Horace ]
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. [ Cicero ]
Adversity tries men, and virtue strives for glory through adverse circumstances, undeterred by hard obstacles. [ Silius Italicus ]
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him. [ Goethe ]
The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living, in a little, much beneath them. [ Addison ]
Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal rightlined circle must conclude and shut up all. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. [ Hare ]
Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place. [ Milton ]
In all our reasonings concerning men, we must lay it down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by circumstances. [ Robert Hall ]
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way. [ Thackeray ]
Carried away by the irresistible influence which is always exercised over men's minds by a bold resolution in critical circumstances. [ Guizot ]
Human action is a seed of circumstances scattered in the dark land of the future and hopefully left to the powers that rule human destiny. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. [ Fielding ]
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, contingent, transitory, almost as liable to change as the winds and waves that waft it to our shores. [ Colton ]
Being happy - being appreciative, being grateful - is not altogether a matter of temperament. Nor is it dependent upon outward circumstances. Not at all. [ Ossian Lang ]
Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances. [ W. Winter ]
As for the ass's behavior in such nice circumstances, whether he would starve sooner than violate his neutrality to the two bundles of hay, I shall not presume to determine. [ Addison ]
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them. [ De Quincey ]
Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain, - proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate. [ Leigh Hunt ]
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. [ Cicero ]
Monotony, even under circumstances least favourable to the usual elements of happiness, becomes a happiness in itself, growing, as it were, unseen, out of the undisturbed certainty of peculiar customs. [ Lord Lytton ]
There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers, that now and then, from the influence of mood or circumstances, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love. [ H. T. Tuckerman ]
It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful; and I am afraid that, whether married or unmarried, we shall find the vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy and cumbrous the longer it is worn. [ Steele ]
The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The man makes the circumstances, and is spiritually as well as economically the artificer of his own fortune, but the man's circumstances are the element he is appointed to live and work in; so that in a no less genuine sense it can be said circumstances make the man. [ Carlyle ]
If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]
Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be suppressed by disgust or resentment, with or without cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection. [ Johnson ]
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads. [ Colton ]
There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Nominate or Name? To nominate is to mention for a specific purpose. To name is to mention for a general purpose. Persons only are nominated; things, as well as persons, are named. To be nominated is a public act; to be named is generally private. To be nominated is always an honor; to be named may, according to circumstances, be either honorable or dishonorable. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Individuals possessing moderate sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth. [ George Combe ]
There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. [ Pascal ]
No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]