I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it.
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
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. "
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.
When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.
For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.
Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.