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

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

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

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

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

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

Few maxims are true in every respect.

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

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

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

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.