Maxims Quote by Larry Niven Download Open image “The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim” — Larry Niven ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Maxims Values
“Some people will only value what they HAVE when it becomes what they HAD” — Renita Bryant Copy Share Image
The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“In the universe there are only a few absolutes of value; something is valuable because it can be eaten for nourishment or used as a weapon or made into clothes or it is valuable if you want it and you believe it will make you happy. Then it is worth anything as well as nothing, worth as much as you… — Susan Orlean Copy Share
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“Music had played suddenly through the cabin, complex and lovely, rich in minor tones, like the sad call of a sex-maddened computer. Nessus whistled.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“have precious little free will," he was saying. "We're too intelligent not to see the right answers.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“1a) Never throw shit at an armed man. 1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?" He shook his head. "Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do… — Francis Landey Patton Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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."… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
