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Tag Name "Maxims" (229)

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Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: Even this shall pass away.
Theodore Tilton
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Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life.
Wayne Dyer
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... that maxim of Descartes: Question everything! Question everything!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
Jonathan Swift
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy many a speech to a sentence and many a folio to a primer.
Charles Caleb Colton
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
Joseph Joubert
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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'
Plato
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Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
Confucius
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With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
Abraham Lincoln
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Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.
Fareed Zakaria
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The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run a thousand people read his work who would read no other inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.
Jonathan Swift
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. This is the motto of the exploiter. Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down. This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.
David Starr Jordan
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Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
William Hazlitt
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.
Thomas Paine
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No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
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And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
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So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.
William Shakespeare
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