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DON'T BOTHER with a lot of make-up. People only see the general impression. You look fine as long as you don't scare the horses.
— Marcia K. Matthews
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
— Mason Cooley
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
— Cardinal Richelieu
Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.
— Paul Eldridge
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
The maxim of courts is that manner is power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.
— Theodora
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
— George Eliot
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
— Baron De Montesquieu
Where there's fire, there's smoke.
— Carol Kendall
A turtle should take fright at the sound of a boiling pot.
— Carol Kendall
Trout made into fish cakes is still trout.
— Carol Kendall
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
— William James
There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!
— Edmund Stoiber
I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.-Calvin — Bill Watterson
I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it.
— Priyanka Chopra
Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
— James Mackintosh
Fame can't give you a hug. Fame can't keep you warm. The only way fame can keep you warm, is if you put all your publicity in a pile and burn it.
— Marcia K. Matthews
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927 — Mark Twain
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The process is the goal," Kaden responded innocently, trying not to feel smug. It was about time one of those Shin maxims worked in his favor.
— Brian Staveley
Maxims were like neural shortcuts, like icons on a desktop that instantly connect you to a body of information.
— Jules Evans
Nothing always anything.
— Marcia K. Matthews
No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
— Seneca The Younger
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
— Henry Fielding
The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.
— Karl Shapiro
Maxims serve the wise;folly enslaves fools. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.
— G.K. Chesterton
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
— Joseph Lelyveld
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
— Jonathan Swift
Your wife has deserted you, but you'll find a new one; whereas, soon my wits will desert me, and for this there is no remedy.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Treat me as I am,and that I shall remain.
Treat me as I wish to be,
and that I shall become. — Karl Schmidt
Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong.
— Max Cummings
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
— Robert Burns
The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
— Joseph Joubert
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
— Luc De Clapiers
Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
One wood mouse can nibble a large hole.
— Carol Kendall
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
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
— Alexander Pushkin
Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
— Aristotle.
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
— Noah Webster
Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
— Bayard Taylor
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is.
— Michael Tilson Thomas
The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
— Elizabeth Janeway
That maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.
— Hilaire Belloc
According to the maxims of universal toleration, the Romans protected a superstition which they despised.
— Edward Gibbon
With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Whenever you meet someone who's different, think of three other things about that person.
— Marcia K. Matthews
My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.
— Jennifer Tilly
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
— John Marshall
The only good mushroom is a cooked mushroom.
— Carol Kendall
No matter where There is, when you arrive it becomes Here.
— Carol Kendall
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.
— Thomas Paine
The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.
— Wilbur Olin Atwater
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When something happens, something else always happens.
— Carol Kendall