Quotes About Maxim

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

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

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact; and great trade will always be attended with considerable abuses. The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade. It should stand as a fundamental maxim, that no vulgar precaution ought to be employed in the cure of evils, which are closely connected with the cause of our prosperity.

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy

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329 A maxim which he frequently repeats is, that the knowledge of ourselves is the necessary and only step by which we can ascend to the knowledge and love of God.

The 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.

It is a received and well-founded maxim, that where no other circumstances affect the case, the greater the power is, the shorter ought to be its duration; and, conversely, the smaller the power, the more safely may its duration be protracted

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it.

Patch grief with proverbs; make misfortune drunk...

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase...

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

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

I'm now more about romantic beauty. The dominatrix thing is over. You never look as good in person as you do in 'Maxim, ' but it's fun. It's all like a fantasy.

Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.

Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.

es una vieja máxima de las escuelas / que la adulación es el alimento de los tontos».

A useful maxim: two rarities combined call for close attention.

Remember the Finagle Laws. The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. The universe is hostile. But