Maxim Quotes - page 5

Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, "Lay it not too much to heart.” Let them adopt the maxim, "Better luck next time”; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)
Your favourite virtue ... Simplicity Your favourite virtue in man ... Strength Your favourite virtue in woman ... Weakness Your chief characteristic ... Singleness of purpose Your idea of happiness ... To fight Your idea of misery ... Submission The vice you excuse most ... Gullibility The vice you detest most ... Servility Your aversion ... Martin Tupper Favourite occupation ... Book-worming Favourite poet ... Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe Favourite prose-writer ... Diderot Favourite hero ... Spartacus, Kepler Favourite heroine ... Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe's Faust] Favourite flower ... Daphne Favourite colour ... Red Favourite name ... Laura, Jenny Favourite dish ... Fish Favourite maxim ... Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me, Terence] Favourite motto ... De omnibus dubitandum [Everything must be doubted]. View quote
Karl Marx
Individualism, isolation, alienation. The poet is not only different from society, he is as different as possible from other poets; all this differentness is exploited to the limit-is used as subject matter, even. Each poet develops an elaborate, "personalized”, bureaucratized machinery of effect; refine your singularities is everybody's maxim. View quote
Randall Jarrell
No, it turns out Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction. And how crazy does that make Saddam? All he had to do was tell Hans Blix, 'Look anywhere you want. Look under the bed. Look beneath the couch. Look behind the toilet tank in the third presidential palace on the left, but keep your mitts off my copies of Maxim.' And Saddam could have gone on dictatoring away until Donald Rumsfeld gets elected head of the World Council of Churches. But no... View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy. View quote
Edward C. Prescott
This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake. View quote
Clayton Christensen
This is indeed a maxim of general application...Nations cannot be governed by the obligations of friendship which prevail among individuals in private life...There can be, in the eyes of a philosophical statesman neither national enmities, nor national friendships. View quote
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
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. View quote
Maggie Q
That maxim, it's not an argument against atheism-it's an argument against foxholes. View quote
James K. Morrow
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! View quote
Krysten Ritter
The enemy had achieved in South Vietnam neither military nor psychological victory. For the South Vietnamese the Tet offensive served as a unifying catalyst, a Pearl Harbor. Had it been the same for the American people, had President Johnson discerned the same support behind him that Thieu did behind him, and had he acted with forcefulness, the enemy could have been induced to engage in serious and meaningful negotiations. Unfortunately, the enemy scored in the United States the psychological victory that eluded him in Vietnam, so influencing President Johnson and his civilian advisors that they ignored the maxim that when the enemy is hurting, you don't diminish the pressure, you increase it. (William Westmoreland)
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. View quote
Danica McKellar
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. View quote
Julian Baggini
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. View quote
Julianna Guill
I can do a 'Maxim' shoot and be super sexy, but I'm also just a 21-year-old girl, and I look 17 sometimes. View quote
Julianna Guill
I didn't want to do all of the mags, and we didn't get paid for those shoots - 'Hollyoaks' took the fee. But I couldn't say no to everything. I felt lucky to have the job I was doing, so I went along with it. And when I did 'Maxim,' I knew that stars like Eva Longoria had also been on the cover, so I was in good company. View quote
Roxanne McKee
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. View quote
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
The fundamental maxim of those who stand at the head of this Age, and therefore the principle of the Age, is this,-to accept nothing as really existing or obligatory, but that which they can understand and clearly comprehend. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. View quote
Eliot Spitzer
[F]inally saw the Megan Fox Maxim shoot. Meh. I'd have preferred Miley Cyrus. View quote
David Shuster
It must be made a sacred maxim, that the militia obey the executive power, which represents the whole people in the execution of laws. (John Adams)
I do not believe that in the four administrations which have taken place, there has been a single instance of departure from good faith towards other nations. We may sometimes have mistaken our rights, or made an erroneous estimate of the actions of others, but no voluntary wrong can be imputed to us. In this respect England exhibits the most remarkable phaenomenon in the universe in the contrast between the profligacy of it's government and the probity of it's citizens. And accordingly it is now exhibiting an example of the truth of the maxim that virtue & interest are inseparable. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. View quote
John Quincy Adams
In a perfectly new case-a case altogether primae impressionis-I think the Judges are bound to hold fast to the principles of the common law-to remember the maxim, "Salus reipublicae suprema lex," and if the condition be really in principle against the public good, to pronounce it in their judgment void. View quote
Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet
In the conduct of life, habits count for more than maxims, because habit is a living maxim, becomes flesh and instinct. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel