Maxim Quotes

178 quotes by 124 authors

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS. — Winston Churchill
If you participate in life, you donâ€™t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my… — Gustave Flaubert
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to… — James Madison
There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there… — Eoin Colfer
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not. — Hilaire Belloc
I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone he… — Daphne du Maurier
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Maxim 20: If youâ€™re not willing to shell your own position, youâ€™re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant
Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is… — Eoin Colfer
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves… — Benjamin Franklin
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's… — George Santayana
It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility. — Miguel de Molinos
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true… — Abraham Lincoln
When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you… — Mark Twain
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty… — Abraham Lincoln
It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great… — Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary… — Max Heindel

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