118 Quotes About Maxims
- Author Marcia K. Matthews
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I get the most work done when I'm procrastinating. While avoiding an unpleasant task, I find several other tasks twice as unpleasant, and get those out of the way first.
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- Author Luc de Clapiers
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Few maxims are true in every respect.
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- Author Vinton Cerf
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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- Author Lawrence M. Krauss
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There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
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- Author Mary Wortley Montagu
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Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.
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- Author Thomas B. Macaulay
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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
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- Author Jean Racine
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It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
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- Author Publilius Syrus
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You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Maxims
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- Author Samuel Smiles
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Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
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