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
“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
“I get the most work done when I'm procrastinating. While avoiding an unpleasant task, I find several other tasks twice as unpleasant,… — Marcia K. Matthews Copy Share Image
“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“The best philosophy doesn't just come up with a few new facts that we can simply add to our stock of information,… — Edward Craig Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful,… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do?… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Treat me as I am, and that I shall remain. Treat me as I wish to be, and that I shall become.” — Karl Schmidt Copy Share Image
One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
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
“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means… — Theodore Parker 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
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. -The Seventy Maxims of… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
