118 Quotes About Maxims

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.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Maxims

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."