Maxims Quotes

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The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say… — Abraham Lincoln
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. — Louis Kronenberger
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. — Richard Whately
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for… — Thomas B. Macaulay
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. — Maxim Gorky
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
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. — Henry Ward Beecher
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. — Abraham Lincoln
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process… — Henry A. Kissinger
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue. — John Marshall
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
There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of… — George Washington
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

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