Maxim

Famous quotes containing the word maxim:

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

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

“Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide—In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)