When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any.… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion,… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
“BE KIND to your future self. Leave things as you would wish to find them tomorrow. You never wake up and say,… — Marcia K. Matthews Copy Share Image
I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple… — Matthew Tindal Copy Share Image
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion…if the next thing you're going to say makes you… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the… — Theodore Tilton Copy Share Image
We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible,… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims… — Plato Copy Share Image
When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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