Maxims Quotes

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For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

You know, I'd love to do a Maxim shoot. But I'm not going to do it, because that's just stupid to do.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.