Maxim Quotes

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

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

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.

You know, I'd love to do a Maxim shoot. But I'm not going to do it, because that's just stupid to do.

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

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

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

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?