Maxim Quotes

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

My maxim was, the career is open to talents, without distinction of birth or fortune.

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.

A military maxim, which ought never to be neglected, is to assemble your cantonments at the point which is most remote and best sheltered from the enemy, especially when he makes his appearance unexpectedly. You will then have time to unite the whole army before he can attack you.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

The first maxim of English jurisprudence is that complainers should come into Court with clean hands.

It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler.