Maxims Quotes

He must needs go that the devil drives.

— William Shakespeare

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

— Mason Cooley

“Nothing always anything.”

— Marcia K. Matthews

What, can the devil speak true?

— William Shakespeare

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

— William Shakespeare

Few maxims are true in every respect.

— Anonymous

Give the devil his due

— Anonymous

Do more than believe: practice.

— William Arthur Ward

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

— Baron de Montesquieu

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

— Howard Tayler

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

— Jonathan Swift

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

— Richard Whately

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin

— Bill Watterson

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

— Benjamin Franklin

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves…

— Joseph Joubert

“Maxim 16: Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

— Howard Tayler

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a…

— Edmund Stoiber

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information…

— Lord Chesterfield

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth

— William Mathews

“Maxim 36: When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

— Howard Tayler

“Whenever you meet someone who's different, think of three other things about that person.”

— Marcia K. Matthews

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing…

— Charles Spurgeon

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is…

— Confucius

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are…

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

“Even hackneyed and commonplace maxims are to be used, if they suit one's purpose: just because they are commonplace, every one seems…

— Aristotle

I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I…

— Maggie Q

It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason…

— Junius

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He…

— Mary Todd Lincoln

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

...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

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which…

— Jonathan Swift

Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more…

— John Adams

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

“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

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

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