Top 50 Maxim Quotes

The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart’s bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin – ‘The worse, the better.’

There’s an old maxim that says, ‘Things that work persist,’ which is why there’s still Cobol floating around.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

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

Scoring a goal in a World Cup was my dream as a little girl. I didn’t really dream of being in ‘Maxim’ when I was 5.

‘Maxim’s’ was supposed to be on ‘Ekstasis,’ but it was very much in its own world.

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

You know how everyone – there’s this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn’t mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn’t mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, ‘Do not educate’?

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that ‘one man is as good as another;’ a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

I don’t work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I’m not going on the cover of ‘Maxim’ and ‘FHM’ because that’s not me.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

I was excited ‘Maxim’ wanted me to be in Expert Fitness.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

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.

In a system where ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is the ultimate maxim, a person who is charged but not yet convicted of a minor crime should not be sent to prison merely because he or she lacks the financial ability to post bail.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

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

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim ‘never say never’ is one of the most important in ethics.

There’s an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual’s status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

Anyone who’s been in my court knows my maxim: ‘If you make them, you pay for them!’

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy.

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.

I love ‘Maxim,’ actually. It’s very cool.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

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.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

I’m fairly introverted, but when I do stuff like a Maxim shoot, there’s a side of me I call Gillian.

I just did a spread in ‘Maxim’, I’m 35 years old. I’ve had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I’m still considered a role model.

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents – a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

I’m now more about romantic beauty. The dominatrix thing is over. You never look as good in person as you do in ‘Maxim,’ but it’s fun. It’s all like a fantasy.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.