Quotes
Quotes about Maxim
We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [Lat., Trahimur omnes laudis studio, et optimus quisque maxime gloria ducitur.]
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Scroundrel maxim.
The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]
It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule; Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest, Truth was with her of ridicule the test.
But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better. [Ger., Entzwei' und gebiete! Tuchtig Wort, Verein' und leite! Bess'rer Hort.]
By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.]
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. [Lat., Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maximae sunt, certissimaeque divitiae.]
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.
