Maxims famous quotes

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Impossible #Maxims

You know, I'd love to do a Maxim shoot. But I'm not going to do it, because that's just stupid to do.
-- Christy Carlson Romano

#Stupid #Maxims

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
-- Elizabeth Janeway

#Powerful #Guides #Maxims

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
-- Henry Fielding

#Trust #Maxims #Persons

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.
-- Hilaire Belloc

#Gun #Maxims

Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.
-- James Ellis

#Needs #Application #Maxims

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
-- James Mackintosh

#Inspiring #Maxims

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
-- Jean Racine

#Common #Maxims

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
-- Joseph Joubert

#Excellence #Germs #Maxims

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
-- Joseph Lelyveld

#Experts #Circumstances #Maxims

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.
-- Karl Shapiro

#Two Sides #Answers #Maxims

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
-- Larry Niven

#Maxims #Values

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss

#Students #Forbidden #Maxims

The maxims of men reveal their characters.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Character #Men #Maxims

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu

#Remember #Maxims

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

#Past #Maxims

I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it.
-- Priyanka Chopra

#Hard Work #Years #Maxims

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
-- Quintilian

#Friendship #Jest #Maxims

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Useless #Maxims

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Floating #Maxims #Stills

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.
-- Wilbur Olin Atwater

#Inspirational #Doe #Maxims

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.
-- Cheyenne Kimball

#Artist #Lows #Maxims

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.
-- Theodora

#Thrones #Glorious #Maxims