Maxim Quotes

178 quotes by 124 authors

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. — Wayne Dyer
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that… — Umberto Eco
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it… — Alexander Hamilton
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in… — Franz Kafka
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. — Thomas B. Macaulay
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that… — James Madison
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in,… — George Mason
I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing… — Danica McKellar
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be… — Bertrand Russell
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to… — Jonathan Swift
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. — Barbara Tuchman
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics. — Julian Baggini
And Father said, â€œThere are no happy endings.â€ â€œRight!â€ cried Iowa Bob â€“ an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. â€œDeath… — John Irving
In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to… — George Washington

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