Maxim Quotes

178 quotes by 124 authors

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some… — Thomas Paine
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which… — Jean de la Bruyere
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed… — George Washington
These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly;… — Frederic C. Howe
The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy â€“ and so do all… — John Wyndham
The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This… — John Stuart Mill
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. — Susan Sontag
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass… — Mark Twain
Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an… — Wayne Dyer
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a… — Richard John Neuhaus
I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I just do the cover of magazines. I think itâ€™s really unfair men or people in… — Eva Longoria
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to… — Mary Wortley Montagu
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with… — Augustus De Morgan
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of… — Immanuel Kant
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. — George Farquhar
We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else. — Vincent de Paul
[I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking… — Vincent de Paul
[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he… — Vincent de Paul
It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act… — Vincent de Paul

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