No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility. — Miguel de Molinos Copy Share Image
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back… — William James Copy Share Image
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We cannot begin with complete doubt. We must begin with all the prejudices which we actually have when we enter upon the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb. — Leo Gordon Copy Share Image
... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
