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Maxims Quotes

Daphne du Maurier quote: "Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife..."
Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife outside? She is going to faint. Daphne du Maurier
Wayne Dyer quote: "Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach..."
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. Wayne Dyer
James Mackintosh quote: "Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. James Mackintosh
I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone he wrote to, visited, dined with, slept with, I could fight her. We would stand on common ground. I should not be afraid. Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. One day the woman would grow old or tired or different, and Maxim would not love her anymore. But Rebecca would never grow old. Rebecca would always be the same. And she and I could not fight. She... Daphne du Maurier
For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history? perhaps most? it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater. Bill Bryson
Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized. Mike Ditka
Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions. Robert McChesney
Julian Assange quote: "Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information..."
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. Julian Assange
you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much. (The Blind Assassin, 137). Margaret Atwood
Not using that handy maxim a man is what he makes his dough at and alas how much. Sometimes it is a gentle gesture to remind people of their big time possibilities. Makes them like you. J. P. Donleavy
Larry Niven quote: "The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim"
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim Larry Niven
William Hazlitt quote: "the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success..."
the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence! William Hazlitt
If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim. Gustave Flaubert
In a community coursed through by energies every road leads to a worthwhile goal, provided one doesn't hesitate or reflect too long. Targets are short-term, but since life is short too, results are maximized, which is all people need to be happy, because the soul is formed by what you accomplish, whereas what you desire without achieving it merely warps the soul. Happiness depends very little on what we want, but only on achieving whatever it is. Robert Musil
His trees were now hung all over with scrawled pieces of paper and bits of cardboard with maxims from Seneca and Shaftesbury, and with various objects; clusters of feathers, church candles, crowns of leaves, women's corsets, pistols, scales, tied to each other in certain order. The Ombrosians used to spend hours trying to guess what those symbols meant: nobles, Pope, virtue, war? I think some of them had no meaning at all but just served to jog his memory and make him realize that even the... Italo Calvino

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