Nothing is so useless as a general
maxim.
View quotes by Thomas Babington MacaulayIt is a golden
maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
View quotes by Robert Louis StevensonKnow thyself! A
maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
View quotes by André GideCalled to the throne by the voice of the people, my
maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me
View quotes by Napoleon BonaparteA
maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Sound
maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted in the memory, they nourish the will.
View quotes by Joseph JoubertNature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established
maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
View quotes by Mary Wortley MontaguMaxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
View quotes by Dr Wayne DyerI used to have a phobia about being naked, but it seems like I’m naked all the time now. I worked through that by doing things like
Maxim magazine photo shoot. Call it therapy
View quotes by Kelly HuI have always laid it down as a
maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
View quotes by Lord ByronLet a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this
maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
View quotes by William Makepeace ThackerayThe voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this
maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
View quotes by Alexander HamiltonFollow the dirt and it leads to money. Follow the money and it leads to power. This
maxim has rarely let me down.
View quotes by Simon JenkinsIt is a
maxim of the wise to leave things before things leave them.
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