118 Quotes About Maxims

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.

As each man knows the life that fits him best, The shape it makes in his soul, the tune, the tone

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.