Quotes About Maxim

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

Even in ancient times general recognition must have been accorded to the view which later in the shape of the maxim pecunia pecuniam parere non potest was to be the basis of all discussion of the problem of interest for hundreds and even thousands of years, and Aristotle undoubtedly did not state it in the famous passage in his Politics as a new doctrine but as a generally-accepted commonplace.2

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.

Symbols are the things we look at because they can be a doorway into another world. We very much go by sense, feeling the way as we go, but my maxim on that occasion was: if in doubt, throw it out. Some of the books mentioned ley lines. There was another called Satanic Rites of the High Priests. These doorways had to be closed off.

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

I 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.

Maxim Maximovich Litvinov

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Every expression of manhood is a reassertion of this cock privilege. All men are male supremacists. Gay men are no exception to the maxim.

I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six. It's a maxim, an oft-repeated rap lyric, a last-ditch rock and hard place algorithm that on the surface is about faith in the system but in reality means shoot first, put your trust in the public defender, and be thankful you still have your health. I