The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries” — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“The best philosophy doesn't just come up with a few new facts that we can simply add to our stock of information,… — Edward Craig Copy Share Image
I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
There's an old maxim which is really true for every parent and that is, 'You haven't failed until you quit trying.' I… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim… If, like those of Rochefoucault,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
“Such incidents usually move me to try to find relief in the building of a maxim. It is a good way, because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of… — Joseph Lelyveld Copy Share Image
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
