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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool.
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
I was excited 'Maxim' wanted me to be in Expert Fitness.
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
I don't need to be on the cover of 'Maxim.' But I want to feel good, and I do.
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world.
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
My maxim is that no one's ever made it. I haven't and that's why I work my hardest.
Anyone who's been in my court knows my maxim: 'If you make them, you pay for them!'
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
I'm fairly introverted, but when I do stuff like a Maxim shoot, there's a side of me I call Gillian.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
I can do a 'Maxim' shoot and be super sexy, but I'm also just a 21-year-old girl, and I look 17 sometimes.
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
Scoring a goal in a World Cup was my dream as a little girl. I didn't really dream of being in 'Maxim' when I was 5.
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
I'm now more about romantic beauty. The dominatrix thing is over. You never look as good in person as you do in 'Maxim,' but it's fun. It's all like a fantasy.
The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.'
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
I don't normally do shoots in bikinis - I'm just not that kind of girl. But for 'Maxim' I was like, 'Bring it on!' I wanted to wear the higher heels and the skimpier bathing suit. I figured I'd go for it!
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
