Maxim Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Maxim Quotes
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“May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.”
Immanuel Kant Quotes
“A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
“Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.”
Dan Brown Quotes
“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”
Aristotle Quotes
“It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right”
Mark Twain Quotes
“All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth”
William Mathews Quotes
“Few maxims are true in every respect”
Vauvenargues, Marquis de Quotes
“All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.”
William Mathews Quotes
“Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.”
James Mackintosh Quotes
“Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.”
Frank Gelett Burgess Quotes
“A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
“They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.”
Joseph Joubert Quotes
“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.”
Denis Diderot Quotes