Maxim Quotes
178 quotes by 124 authors
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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
— Aristotle
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger…
— John Adams
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
— John Quincy Adams
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I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all…
— Tony Abbott
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to…
— James Buchanan
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
— Vinton Cerf
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to…
— Susan B. Anthony
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.…
— Jonathan Swift
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
— Jonathan Swift
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
— William James
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
— Jonathan Swift
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The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual!
— Winston Churchill
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
— Louis Kronenberger
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
— Richard Whately
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Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
— Maxim Gorky
Who Wrote These Maxim Quotes
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