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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. -- Wayne Dyer
Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake. -- Sirio Maccioni
I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me. -- Maggie Q
Maxim 31: Only cheaters prosper.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not. -- Hilaire Belloc
Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth. -- Bertrand Russell
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim -- Larry Niven
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine. -- Beth Broderick
Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
Maxim 27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. -- Benjamin Franklin
Maxim 37: There is no "overkill". There is only "open fire" and "time to reload".-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
Maxim 20: If you're not willing to shell your own position, you're not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
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. -- Christy Carlson Romano
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. -- Christy Carlson Romano
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. -- Jonathan Swift
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. -- Benjamin Franklin
Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
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. -- Priyanka Chopra
I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that. -- Cheyenne Kimball
I'm now more about romantic beauty. The dominatrix thing is over. You never look as good in person as you do in 'Maxim,' but it's fun. It's all like a fantasy. -- Julianna Guill
I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model. -- Danica McKellar
I don't normally do shoots in bikinis - I'm just not that kind of girl. But for 'Maxim' I was like, 'Bring it on!' I wanted to wear the higher heels and the skimpier bathing suit. I figured I'd go for it! -- Krysten Ritter
Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound. -- H. G. Wells
Ich solle niemals anders verfahren, als so, dass ich auch wollen k oÂ« nne, meine Maxime solle ein allgemeines Gesetz werden. I ought never to act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
I will not be doing any FHM or crazy Maxim magazines. I will leave that to the other actresses in Hollywood who want to shed their clothes because they think that's beneficial to them. I would much rather chose a creative way - like in a movie. -- Michelle Trachtenberg
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. -- David Hume
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. -- St. Jerome
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. -- John Quincy Adams
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics. -- Julian Baggini
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. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. -- Susan B. Anthony
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. -- John Adams
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. -- Andre Gide
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. -- George Mason
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. -- Bertrand Russell
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. -- Franz Kafka
It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin. -- Thomas Wentworth
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. -- Tony Abbott
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. -- Margaret Fuller
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. -- Jonathan Swift
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. -- Alexander Hamilton
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment, the more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hierarchies. -- Max Heindel
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. -- Maxim Gorky
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything! -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The maxim of courts is that manner is power. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual! -- Winston Churchill
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS. -- Winston Churchill
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others. -- Niki Lauda
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food. -- Wilbur Olin Atwater
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest. -- Quintilian
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all. -- Henry Fielding
It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right. -- Mark Twain
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. -- David Hume
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. -- Barbara Tuchman
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith. -- Jonathan Swift
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. -- Jean Racine
It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility. -- Miguel de Molinos
When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow. -- Monty Roberts
The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch -- Benjamin Franklin
Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything. -- Vincent de Paul
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. -- Anne Bradstreet
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. -- Mark Twain
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim. -- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. -- Richard Whately
For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre. -- Theodora
Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do. -- Vivienne Westwood
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities. -- Bertrand Russell
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. -- Vinton Cerf
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. -- George Farquhar
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free. -- Samuel Johnson
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. -- Confucius
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first. -- Jonathan Swift
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. -- George Washington
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. -- Honore de Balzac
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. -- William James
Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me. -- Mason Cooley
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction. -- Ellen Glasgow
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. -- Luc de Clapiers
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. -- Louis Kronenberger
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. -- William Hazlitt
To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect. -- Daniel Coyle
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself -- Baron de Montesquieu
There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. -- Susan Sontag
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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." -- Samuel Smiles
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life. -- Joseph Lelyveld
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many. -- Jonathan Swift
There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.' -- Allen West
The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank. -- Walter Bagehot
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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. -- William R. Alger
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim. -- Gerald Jonas
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. -- William R. Alger
In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informationsof others. -- Lord Chesterfield
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else. -- Vincent de Paul

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