Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes 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 simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which… — William James 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
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies"… — Gerald Jonas Copy Share Image
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a… — Edmund Stoiber Copy Share Image
It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some… — Richard Steele 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
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. — Howard Tayler 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
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
There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to… — Allen West Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. — Confucius Copy Share Image