43 Maxim Quotes for You to Enjoy

'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world. Julia Holter

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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. Margaret Fuller

Life Politics Best Heart Honesty Honesty Is Simple Honor Become Sense Aim Would True Identical Policy Trade Till Private Maxim The Best Policy Laid Public Might Elevate Tone

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. Maxim Gorky

You Past Go Maxim Cannot Anywhere

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov. Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Learning Experience Amazing Drama Everything Shakespeare Had Amazing Experience Western Maxim

I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool. Pierce Brosnan

Love Very Maxim Cool Actually

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always. Richard Flanagan

Writing Words Say Several Characters Plots Rather Could Always Years Maxim Listen After Much Novel Novelist Need

Anyone who's been in my court knows my maxim: 'If you make them, you pay for them!' Robert Rinder

You Pay Make Knows Court Been Maxim Anyone Them

You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her. Sarah Koenig

You Mother Mind Parents Become Everyone Our Definitely Generally Like Know Edit Becoming How Maxim Really Her Need

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

Good Great Cause Men Ruin Philosophy Rule Having More Counselors Never Princes Lords Ambitious Maxim Common Desire

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. Tony Abbott

Government Good You Trust Money Value First Taxpayer Live Else Above Observe Namely Within Understand Maxim Holds Should Means Avoid Waste Good Government Harm

I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for I love to attend to these unsophisticated indications. But otherwise, 'festina lente' is my maxim in education. William Godwin

Love Education Otherwise Extremely Would Attend Putting Most Balk Opinion Am Maxim Children Against Them Themselves Forward Desire

Let 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. William Makepeace Thackeray

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. Umberto Eco

Funny Words Long Other Says Fact True Equally Witty Opposite Maxim In Other Words Urge Aphorism Appears

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