It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. "
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.
This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. " This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down. " This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim
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.
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.
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind to assure its happiness.
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.
The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong. The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority. . . . If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.
There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
[I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking of advice, we must reject and consider as a temptation whatever is suggested to the contrary.