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What's your favorite axiom? (The nerd pickup line, — Hanya Yanagihara

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much — Stephen King

I found bossing other people about such a delightful novelty that I had to remind myself of Lord Acton's famous axiom about its tendency to corrupt. — Victoria Clayton

I lie on my back
And you open me up, because
Positions change but not the axiom:
One cannot be top
If one cannot be bottom. — Ronald Baytan

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken (Bene Gesserit axiom). — Frank Herbert

Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Laurence J. Peter

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes. — Bertrand Russell

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. — Aneurin Bevan

To accept the dignity of another person is an axiom. It has nothing to do with subduing, supporting, or giving charity to other people. — Leo Tolstoy

Excess of strength alone is proof of strength — Friedrich Nietzsche

The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick. — Marni Jackson

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are. — Julius Evola

This is not new: people do business with people they like, know and trust. Taking that axiom in to account, would YOU trust YOU? — Beth Ramsay

The fundamental axiom of economics is the human mercenary instinct. Without — Liu Cixin

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence. — John Searle

It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches. — Frank Herbert

All roads lead to Amber, he said, as though it were an axiom. — Roger Zelazny

It is a fundamental axiom of married life that you must lie to a woman. She likes it! — Agatha Christie

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. — Ayn Rand

You may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing — Benjamin Graham

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed. — Bertrand Russell

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example. — Mark Twain

I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it's a piece of misinformation. — William Trevor

It's a very old axiom, but do you believe the end can justify the means? When there's no choice left? — James Dashner

Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment. — Maggie Nelson

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness — Murray Rothbard

A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth

His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number. — Alexis De Tocqueville

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. — Fernand Leger

An axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourself
no one else can know you — Rodney Hall

Hm ... yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat. — Walt Alston

Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. — Gustave Flaubert

There's no right or wrong way to seek truth, and as the old axiom states, all paths lead to the same place. — Skye Alexander

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. — E. M. Forster

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause. — James Grant

Keep in mind this basic axiom - if all that now exists was once imagined, then what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined. — Wayne W. Dyer

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that. — David Hackworth

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism." — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. — Edward Abbey

Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible. — Donald A. Norman

It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends. — Robert N. Lee

AXIOM. - Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. — Frank Chodorov

Experiment escorts us last-
His pungent company
will not allow an axiom
An opportunity — Emily Dickinson

Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You're stronger. Trust your stillsuit. She — Frank Herbert

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. — Maxwell Maltz

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason. — Epes Sargent

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live. — Ayn Rand

To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. — Ayn Rand

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also. — Thomas Jefferson

It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. — Alcoholics Anonymous

( ... )man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves. — James A. Garfield

Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero. — Hanya Yanagihara

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything. — Enid Bagnold