Quotes
Quotes about Maxim
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita vexatur.]
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]
The ancient sage who concocted the maxim, Know Thyself might have added, Don't Tell Anyone!
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.
A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. - Real Presences, 1989.
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.]
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.]
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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.
The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched.
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservativeâbefore they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).
