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Maxims Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.…
- The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
- The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
- It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
- 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend…
- It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to…
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- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with… — John Adams
- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
- I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste… — Tony Abbott
- To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one… — James Buchanan
- There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. — Vinton Cerf
- I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal… — Miguel de Cervantes
- Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel