Maxims Quotes

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.

I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others.

When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

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 it.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

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.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.

Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

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 would never do anything like that.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."