Maxims Quotes

222 quotes by 154 authors

Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its… — Charles Spurgeon
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a… — Richard John Neuhaus
I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I just do the cover of magazines. I think itâ€™s really unfair men or people in… — Eva Longoria
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to… — Mary Wortley Montagu
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with… — Augustus De Morgan
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of… — Immanuel Kant
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. — George Farquhar
We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else. — Vincent de Paul
[I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking… — Vincent de Paul
[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he… — Vincent de Paul
It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act… — Vincent de Paul
We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience… — Vincent de Paul
If the Company takes my advice, it will always be preserved through this maxim, for if we are good, we will not lack any, and… — Vincent de Paul
Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything. — Vincent de Paul
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims;… — Samuel Johnson
The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food. — Wilbur Olin Atwater
It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right. — Mark Twain
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. — Jean Racine
Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of… — Pope Pius IX
Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is… — David Starr Jordan

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