Quotes Temple Maxim Quotes

It is a very big surprise, but like Maxim says it is just the compulsory dance. We will have to wait until the end of the competition.

Albena Denkova

I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop and grow with joy rather than grief. However, when the pain comes my way, I try to get the most growth out of it.

Alexa McLaughlin

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

Politician

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

Novelist

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

Writer

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Barbara Tuchman

Historian

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Barbara W. Tuchman

It became very clear to me that Maxim -- this sounds weird -- it's kind of like Martha Stewart for a different demographic. We are a lifestyles brand just the way Martha's a lifestyles brand. We're just aimed at different folks.

Barry Pincus

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

Philosopher

A new maxim is often a brilliant error.

Chretien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

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 Romano

Actress

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

David Hume

Philosopher

Maxim is such a dangerous player with the puck, he draws players to him, especially after scoring a goal like that. I look for that, you seem to get a little more space when Maxim has the puck, so it's my job to get to an open spot, because he usually finds a way to get the puck to you. He made a great pass and all I had to do was hit the net.

Derek Roy

Moral: A peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deuteronomy 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord.

Donald Morgan

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Edward Coke

Businessman

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

Novelist

But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, / That right was right, and there he would abide.

George Crabbe

Writer

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

Statesman

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

Philosopher

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Philosopher

It's disappointing that the Maxim Institute is calling for school zones to be scrapped and for the introduction of a voucher system, when these policies have been tried and have failed.

Irene Cooper

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

James Buchanan

President

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

James F. Cooper

Novelist

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

James Madison

President

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Philosopher