Maxims Quotes

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Maxims. - Publilius Syrus

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work. - Jonathan Swift

The maxims of men reveal their characters. - Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. - Seneca

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. - Henry Ward Beecher

One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd. - Niels Bohr

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate. - Edward Dahlberg

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. - William James