It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I just do the cover of magazines. I think it’s really unfair men or people in the world think you can’t be both – you can’t be a sex symbol and a serious businessperson. Who says I can’t be both? Who says I can’t do the cover of Maxim and run a production company? Women are complex. Women are beautiful and intellectual and spiritual and social and entrepreneurial. They’re everything. And I think I’m a great example of that.
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.
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. "
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
[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.
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.
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.
[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
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.
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.