Unknown. A Maxim Revised

Famous quotes containing the words maxim revised, unknown, maxim and/or revised:

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

    The unknown always seems unbelievable, Lucas.
    Harry Essex (b. 1910)

    It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    Coming to Rome, much labour and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you you will not find Him.
    Anonymous 9th century, Irish. “Epigram,” no. 121, A Celtic Miscellany (1951, revised 1971)