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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

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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

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

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

Where there's fire, there's smoke. — Carol Kendall

A turtle should take fright at the sound of a boiling pot. — Carol Kendall

It is easier to lure a fish than to hit it over the head with a club. — Carol Kendall

Trout made into fish cakes is still trout. — Carol Kendall

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest. — Quintilian

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal

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

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self. — Blaise Pascal

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

Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application. — James Ellis

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

A net across the Little Trickle won't catch fish in the Watercress River. — Carol Kendall

Little known Max fact: I invented the word TWIRGIN (a Twitter virgin). — Max Cummings

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

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. — Gelett Burgess

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

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice. — Blaise Pascal

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham

Maxims for Revolutionists TITLES Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. — Anonymous

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

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

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

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous. — Samuel Johnson

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 more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right. — Mark Twain

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