Maxim Quotes

178 quotes by 124 authors

The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little… — Walter Bagehot
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no… — Gottfried Leibniz
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. — Abraham Lincoln
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
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
"On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any. If they asked… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a… — Abraham Lincoln
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of… — Alexander Hamilton
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the… — Wallace Stevens
[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over… — James Madison
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim,… — Abraham Lincoln
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer… — Mark Twain
I don't normally do shoots in bikinis - I'm just not that kind of girl. But for 'Maxim' I was like, 'Bring it on!' I… — Krysten Ritter
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. — Mark Twain
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally… — Benjamin Franklin
The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly… — Richard Henry Lee
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim — Larry Niven
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. — Charles Caleb Colton
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this… — Ludwig Feuerbach
I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships… — Lord Byron

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