Maxim

Famous quotes containing the word maxim:

“In controlling men:
If at first you don’t succeed,
Why, cry, cry, again.”
—Unknown. A Maxim Revised (l. 3–4)

“It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“The maxim of courts is that manner is power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)