Maxim Quotes

Maxim Quote of the day

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.

We exist only to exist.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

It is in vain to chase two birds at the same time, even if you have a thousand legs.

Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?

Each of us is like all of us and like no one else.

This is the only truth in the world that was necessary yesterday, is necessary today, and will continue to be necessary tomorrow: be conscious of now.

Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.

Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.

The essence of warrior traits are demonstrated by : integrity with self, and honesty with others

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection, " may be spelled PARALYSIS.

I love 'Maxim, ' actually. It's very cool.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.

Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.

In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

What you choose also chooses you.