22 Quotes on Maxim

• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Author: Richard Whately

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

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• 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.

  Author: Christy Romano

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

  Author: Jean Racine

• In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

  Author: George Mason

• Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

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

  Author: St. Jerome

• It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

  Author: David Hume

• 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.

  Author: Alexander Hamilton

• In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

  Author: Maxim Gorky

• Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

  Author: Andre Gide

• They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

  Author: James Cooper

• We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

  Author: Edward Coke

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

  Author: Vinton Cerf

• To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

  Author: James Buchanan

• The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

  Author: Thomas Babington

• I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

  Author: Susan Anthony

• 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.

  Author: William Alger

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

  Author: John Adams

• 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.

  Author: John Adams

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