I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal… — Miguel de Cervantes 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
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. — Alexander Pushkin 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
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
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
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
In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in… — John Calvin 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
the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE Before you examine the body of a patient, Be patient to learn his story. For once you learn… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the… — Robert A. Burton 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
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
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes… — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
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