Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Do more than believe: practice.
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
The maxim of courts is that manner is power.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.
I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others.
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
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.
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.
Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.
When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.
Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.
For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.
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.
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
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.
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.
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.
My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society.