Maxims Quotes

222 quotes by 154 authors

I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of… — Maggie Q
You know, I'd love to do a Maxim shoot. But I'm not going to do it, because that's just stupid to do. — Christy Carlson Romano
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it. — William Rounseville Alger
The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers. — Karl Shapiro
Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous;… — George Farquhar
As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others.… — Edward Forbes
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my… — Susan B. Anthony
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application… — Charles Caleb Colton
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. — James Mackintosh
No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing. — Seneca the Younger
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself — Baron de Montesquieu
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Few maxims are true in every respect. — Luc de Clapiers
Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say. — Mary Wortley Montagu
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. — Benjamin Franklin
The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch — Benjamin Franklin
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous. — Samuel Johnson
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true… — George Washington
Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk,… — Warren Buffett

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