Maxims Quotes

222 quotes by 154 authors

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
My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed. — Jennifer Tilly
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
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. TheÂ… — Alexis de Tocqueville
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
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim — Larry Niven
If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be… — Samuel Johnson
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
With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
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 A. Burton
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on… — Plato
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. — Confucius

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