It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get… — Jennifer Tilly Copy Share Image
“Maxim 27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries” — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
“Maxim 33: If you're leaving tracks, you're being followed. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries” — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“DON'T BOTHER with a lot of make-up. People only see the general impression. You look fine as long as you don't scare… — Marcia K. Matthews Copy Share Image
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. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance,… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Kant does not think that the silly commandment "universalize your maxims" is the be-all and end-all of ethics or that it provides… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Campaign manager Eli Gold played by Alan Cumming on "The Good Wife" describing an old maxim in politics, don't commit to a… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
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… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
“Maxim 35: That which does not kill us has made a tactical error. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries” — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
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