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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. — Maxim Gorky

I really love voice over work, because it lets you go crazy and have fun. You literally can go anywhere with it! — Maxim Knight

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A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Maxim Gorky

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother. — Maxim Gorky

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future — Maxim Gorky

The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the rich from greed. — Maxim Gorky

If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning. — Daphne Du Maurier

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. — Benjamin Franklin

If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon. — Alexei Maxim Russell

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. — Maxim Gorky

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. — Maxim Gorky

I know all about you from your books,' she said. 'But in spite of that you're still a riddle to me.'
Have you come here to solve it?' I asked. — Maxim Biller

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre. — Theodora

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington

When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow. — Monty Roberts

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me! — Maxim Gorky

Every set is a different experience, so it's hard to say which one's my favorite. — Maxim Knight

...Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being. — Immanuel Kant

Please tread carefully and keep away from the shadows; you are about to enter the abyss. — Maxim Jakubowski

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

I can do a 'Maxim' shoot and be super sexy, but I'm also just a 21-year-old girl, and I look 17 sometimes. — Julianna Guill

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. — Jonathan Swift

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. — Anne Bradstreet

I see a lot of true artists ... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that. — Cheyenne Kimball

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. — Abraham Lincoln

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers. — Maxim Gorky

The pleasure of living carries with it the obligation to die. — Maxim Gorky

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know. — Maxim Gorky

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

The Queen drilled in her own mother's maxim that if you find something or somebody a bore, the fault lies in you. — Sally Bedell Smith

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. — William James

Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger. — Maxim Gorky

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith. — Jonathan Swift

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry. — Alexei Maxim Russell

Besides, it was a well-known maxim that maniacs must be humoured. — Georgette Heyer

A useful maxim: two rarities combined call for close attention. — Robert Jordan

What was the maxim? If you try to kill the king, make sure you do. — Steve Berry

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. — Maxim Gorky

God created man in his own image and after his own likeness. Therefore he is like man if man is like him. — Maxim Gorky

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free. — Samuel Johnson

My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world. — Rene Descartes

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done. — Baron De Montesquieu

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books. — Maxim Gorky

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction. — Ellen Glasgow

Everything can be summed up into an equation. — Alexei Maxim Russell

If nobody is happy, then it's an equitable merger. - Maxim of airline seniority list arbitration — Robert Gandt

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy — Edward Gibbon

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard. — V.E Schwab

The meaning of life is basically to be the kind of person you would want to be around. — Alexei Maxim Russell

The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world. — Alexei Maxim Russell

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. — Richard Bentley

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work. — Maxim Gorky

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

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it. — Maxim Gorky

Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere. — Jonathan D. Spence

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. — Henri Frederic Amiel

It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility. — Miguel De Molinos

My maxim is that no one's ever made it. I haven't and that's why I work my hardest. — Shayne Ward

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

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin. — Charles Spurgeon

Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned. — Mohsin Hamid

Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky

Find 'em hot, leave 'em wet," he murmured.
"Well known firefighter maxim. — Kate Meader

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth. — Bertrand Russell

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better. — Maxim Gorky

You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better. — Maxim Gorky

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

We ever long for visions of beauty,
We ever dream of unknown worlds. — Maxim Gorky

Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say. — Mary Wortley Montagu

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. — George Farquhar

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face. — Maxim Gorky

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. — Hudson Maxim

A lifelong disciple of Lord Chesterfield's maxim that a gentleman was free to do anything he pleased as long as he did it with style. — Joseph J. Ellis

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. — Maxim Gorky

The indifferent pendulum of the clock kept chopping off the seconds of life, calmly and precisely. — Maxim Gorky

Anyone who does not care of your business and reduce your underestimates He does not know the treasures inside you — Proverb

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. — Maxim Gorky

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles. — Maxim Gorky

That maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. — Susan Sontag

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities. — Bertrand Russell

All parents wash away their sins with their tears; you are not the only one. — Maxim Gorky

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man? — Maxim Gorky

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am. — Maxim Gorky

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy] — Abraham Lincoln

It was a maxim with Foxey- our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody. — Charles Dickens

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens. — Maxim Gorky

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine. — Beth Broderick

In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest — George Washington

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much. — Margaret Atwood

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch — Benjamin Franklin

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. — Maxim Gorky

Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more. — Francis Of Assisi