Maxim Quotes

178 Maxim quotes by 124 unique authors

"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
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes,… — Robert Burton
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. — Confucius
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed… — Joseph Joubert
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. — David Hume
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that… — Eliot Spitzer
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation… — Edward Gibbon
There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.' — Allen West
F8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great photo was being in the… — Dewitt Jones
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man… — James F. Cooper
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it… — John Searle

Who Wrote These Maxim Quotes

124 authors contributed a total of 178 Maxim Quotes, led by these top contributors: