Quotes About Maxim

APOPHTHEGM  (A'POPHTHEGM)   n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

In the law of torts there is the maxim: Every dog has one free bite.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

A Talmudic maxim instructs with respect to the Scripture: "Turn it over, and turn it over, for all is therein.

Marketing workforce is the face of an organisation and those having spent the maximum days are the soul of the organisation and they reflect the product characteristics through their characters.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

Reid's maxim, "I despise philosophy and renounce its guidance; let my soul dwell in common sense.

When you follow Maxim #1 and match yourself with Golden Behaviors, you don't need to work hard to sustain or manipulate motivation.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Early on he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot. America was his country. He would never leave America.

The King's response was unequivocal: any proposition which tended to destroy the maxim that employees of the State must be members of the Established Church could not be discussed.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

Aphorism or maxim, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books, at least in prose, are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it; and that it is one of the great objects, apart from the mere acquisition of knowledge, which men ought to seek in the reading of books.

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

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

I am like an old attorney, unswayed by any sentiment whatever. I never accept any statement unless it be confirmed, according to the poetic maxim of Lord Byron, by the testimony of at least two false witnesses.

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

The risk of leaving East Prussia, hearth of Junkerdom and the Hohenzollerns, to be held by only nine divisions was hard to accept, but Frederick the Great had said, "It is better to lose a province than split the forces with which one seeks victory," and nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Besides, it was a well-known maxim that maniacs must be humoured.

Such incidents usually move me to try to find relief in the building of a maxim. It is a good way, because if you have luck you can get the venom out of yourself and into the maxim; then comfort and a healed spirit follow. Maxims are not easy to make; they do not come in right shape at the first call; they are creatures of evolution, of development; you have to try several plans before you get one that suits you, or even comes fairly near to suiting you.

The saying is old that truth should not be spoken at all times; and those whom a sick conscience worries into habitual violation of the maxim are imbeciles and nuisances.