“Maxims were like neural shortcuts, like icons on a desktop that instantly connect you to a body of information.” — Jules Evans Copy Share Image
We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Fame can't give you a hug. Fame can't keep you warm. The only way fame can keep you warm, is if you… — Marcia Matthews Copy Share Image
“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around… — Friedrich Schiller 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
“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre. — Theodora Copy Share Image
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
It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as… — David Hume Copy Share Image
As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Right, we've got these institutions of media, these financial institutions, we have the means of distribution, we have the means of production,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when… — Catherine the Great 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
As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
