Top 298 Maxim Quotes & Sayings

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

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

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

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

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.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility.

I was excited 'Maxim' wanted me to be in Expert Fitness.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

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

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literature: "I'll take a drink tomorrow." I actually don't think that's necessarily a very helpful maxim in AA, but it's a very good maxim in showing how strategic self-deception can be employed, even self-consciously. That's the amazing thing, to me, about self-deception.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

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

My maxim is that no one's ever made it. I haven't and that's why I work my hardest.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

I don't need to be on the cover of 'Maxim.' But I want to feel good, and I do.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

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

'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

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

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

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

When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!

We cannot begin with complete doubt. We must begin with all the prejudices which we actually have when we enter upon the study ofphilosophy. These prejudices are not to be dispelled by a maxim, for they are things which it does not occur to us can be questioned. A person may, it is true, in the course of his studies, find reason to doubt what he began by believing; but in that case he doubts because he has a positive reason for it, and not on account of the Cartesian maxim. Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

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

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

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.

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

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

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

I'm fairly introverted, but when I do stuff like a Maxim shoot, there's a side of me I call Gillian.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone he wrote to, visited, dined with, slept with, I could fight her. We would stand on common ground. I should not be afraid. Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. One day the woman would grow old or tired or different, and Maxim would not love her anymore. But Rebecca would never grow old. Rebecca would always be the same. And she and I could not fight. She was to strong for me.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

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