My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes 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
Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and… — William Matthews 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
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. — William James 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
We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the… — Paul Washer 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
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
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
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
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