Maxims Quotes

222 quotes by 154 authors

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. — Gelett Burgess
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life. — Joseph Lelyveld
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one! — Edmund Stoiber
Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about… — Priyanka Chopra
Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application. — James Ellis
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life… — Margaret Fuller
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would… — Andre Gide
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. — Wayne Dyer
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that… — Umberto Eco
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. — George Eliot
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it… — Alexander Hamilton
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken… — William James
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in… — Franz Kafka
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. — Thomas B. Macaulay
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that… — James Madison
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in,… — George Mason

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