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  • "It's only numbers, cadet," Hauptmann says, a favorite maxim.†   (source)
  • Whatever the risk to the living, however deadly the opposing fire, SEALs will fight through the jaws of death to recover the remains of a fallen comrade. It's a maxim that has survived since the SEALs were first formed in 1962, and it still applies today.†   (source)
  • He stared at it stupidly for a moment, thinking of that old Navy maxim: Whatever CAN go wrong WILL go wrong.†   (source)
  • Is this a proverb or a maxim?†   (source)
  • Abenthy had given me a new piece of sympathy to practice: The Maxim of Variable Heat Transferred to Constant Motion, or something pretentious like that.†   (source)
  • Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim."†   (source)
  • My toast is one of those maxims so dear to our hearts: 'Business makes progress!†   (source)
  • First he says: Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a Universal Law of Nature.†   (source)
  • I had a picture of Mrs. Willard, with her heather-mixture tweeds and her sensible shoes and her wise, maternal maxims.†   (source)
  • There is a maxim in the advertising business that an advertisement has to be seen at least six times before anyone will remember it.†   (source)
  • She looks like that chick in Maxim: And?†   (source)
  • I had always believed in the maxim that the best way to predict the future was to create it.†   (source)
  • He lived by a single maxim: "Learn your horse."†   (source)
  • Courageous, worthy and capable men are elected to public office and hold posts of gainful employment in society; peace and trust among all men are the maxims of living.†   (source)
  • Grass is greener …. he would have a maxim for the situation.†   (source)
  • Pirkei Avot is a collection of Rabbinic maxims, and a chapter of it is studied by many Jews every Shabbat between Passover and the Jewish New Year.†   (source)
  • They are to be drawn in by degrees, until they cannot retreat…. we are breaking through all those sacred maxims of our forefathers, and giving the alarm to every wise man on the continent of America, that all his rights depend on the will of men whose corruptions are notorious, who regard him as an enemy, and who have no interest in his prosperity.†   (source)
  • That's why smees are experts on the subtle arts of courtship and seduction; nothing comes easy to us, but we do understand and live by the Lover's Maxim.†   (source)
  • I have had maxims and verses flung at me all day and I can endure them no more.†   (source)
  • I move my chair closer to Brigid's comforting patter, her motherly maxims, and far away from the column's dangerous beauty.†   (source)
  • He is inundated with Howardisms suddenly; all true, those old and wrinkled maxims, proverbs, clichés.†   (source)
  • In his History of the United States, Webster wrote, "The most perfect maxims and examples of regulating your social conduct and domestic economy, as well as the best rules of morality and religion, are to be found in the Bible."†   (source)
  • In that maxim lies both our ultimate purpose and our most pressing danger.†   (source)
  • Lunch at Maxim's!†   (source)
  • Every maxim of war was archaic.†   (source)
  • Or, more simply, the maxim of St. Augustine: "Love, and then do what you will."†   (source)
  • But she only knew that the savor of it gave her an unparalleled sense of delight, a luscious and reckless and great-hearted warmth that spread downward to her toes, validating all quaint and ancient maxims as to the healing properties of wine.†   (source)
  • My mother reached into her bottomless supply of maxims and told Doris, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."†   (source)
  • Portraits, maxims, occasional statues of the African madonna —they continued all the way to the hotel.†   (source)
  • It has always been assumed that the most important things in the Gospels are the ethical maxims and commandments.†   (source)
  • And his father replied that his son's situation was "clear, plain and obvious": You are supported by no party; you have too honest a heart, too independent a mind, and too brilliant talents, to be sincerely and confidentially trusted by any man who is under the domination of party maxims or party feelings…… You may depend upon it then that your fate is decided…… You ought to know and expect this and by no means regret it.†   (source)
  • (Turns t0 COMMON MAN) The maxim of the law is (Very carefully) "Silence gives consent."†   (source)
  • And from then on he adopted the maxim, 'Napoleon is always right,' in addition to his private motto of 'I will work harder.'   (source)
    maxim = a short saying that expresses a general truth or principle
  • The birds did not understand Snowball's long words, but they accepted his explanation, and all the humbler animals set to work to learn the new maxim by heart.   (source)
  • FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD, was inscribed on the end wall of the barn, above the Seven Commandments and in bigger letters. When they had once got it by heart, the sheep developed a great liking for this maxim, and often as they lay in the field they would all start bleating 'Four legs good, two legs bad!'   (source)
  • Napoleon ended his speech with a reminder of Boxer's two favorite maxims, 'I will work harder' and 'Comrade Napoleon is always right' —   (source)
    maxims = short sayings that express general truths or principles
  • 'I will work harder' and 'Comrade Napoleon is always right' — maxims, he said, which every animal would do well to adopt as his own.   (source)
  • His idea of French was verb forms and Phaedra, with a reliance on pithy maxims from noted authors.†   (source)
  • Ethics and politics also have basic maxims: Every effect has a cause.†   (source)
  • These examples show how the maxims should be used.†   (source)
  • And using the maxims in this way is contrary to reason and common sense.†   (source)
  • Constitutions can only be judged by general principles and maxims.†   (source)
  • I will show how the maxims are used properly by examples.†   (source)
  • By the time I was ten I had learned all my mother's maxims by heart.†   (source)
  • It's dirt that gets swept, and it's into the dustbin, she used to say, but she'd violated her own maxims.†   (source)
  • For the gods have withheld from the barbarians the light of discretion, as that their poetry is not, like ours, full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims, but is all of love and war.†   (source)
  • We have been afraid to think…… Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write…… Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments …. that many of our rights are inherent and essential, agreed on as maxims and established as preliminaries, even before Parliament existed…… Let us read and recollect and impress upon our souls the views and ends of our more immediate forefathers, in exchanging their native country for a dreary, inhospitable wilderness………†   (source)
  • The inventors of this fallacy try to support it by perverting the true meaning of legal maxims of law interpretation.†   (source)
  • Even if these maxims were being used correctly in this case, which they are not, they never apply to a government's constitution.†   (source)
  • They base their arguments on maxims like this: "A specification of particulars is an exclusion of generals;" or "The expression of one thing is the exclusion of another."†   (source)
  • Geometry maxims are of this nature: "the whole is greater than any of its parts; things equal to the same are equal to one another; two straight lines cannot enclose a space; all right angles are equal to each other."†   (source)
  • There was to me an element of pathos in those maxims, portraits and statues, in this wish of a man of the bush to make himself big, and setting about it in such a crude way.†   (source)
  • Behind every successful man you'll find a good woman" was another favorite in her storehouse of maxims.†   (source)
  • Other than Mayakovsky, Maxim Gorky had been Mishka's greatest contemporary hero.†   (source)
  • The same thought was expressed in the Middle Ages in the maxim: credo quid absurdum.†   (source)
  • And what on earth is the Lover's Maxim?" asked Max, feeling very uninformed.†   (source)
  • His first maxim then should be to place his honor out of reach of all men.†   (source)
  • Will my countrymen justify the maxim of tyrants, that mankind is not made for freedom?†   (source)
  • This I believe is a just maxim in general.†   (source)
  • The posts that supported the President's maxim boards were often set in bare clay.†   (source)
  • Once in a while he'd come out with some hoary maxim, served up with a wry irony that did nothing to reduce the boredom quotient; or else he'd say, "I coulda been a contender," then glare meaningfully at the class as if there was some deeper-than-deep point they were all supposed to get.†   (source)
  • With that, Mishka turned his back on Maxim Gorky and the Central House of Writers, and he went instead to the offices of Goslitizdat.†   (source)
  • Looking back, the Count recalled how on the first night of his house arrest, in the spirit of his godfather's old maxim, he had committed himself to mastering his circumstances.†   (source)
  • The first was that if one did not master one's circumstances, one was bound to be mastered by them; and the second was Montaigne's maxim that the surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, before the descriptions of the Arc de Triomphe and the Grand Palais, of the Madeleine and Maxim's, was a thin paper foldout with a detailed map of the neighborhood.†   (source)
  • The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.†   (source)
  • "My fundamental maxim of government is neverto trust the lamb to the wolf," and in France, he feared, the wolf was now the majority.†   (source)
  • For as I like a young man in whom there is something of the old [ran a famous passage], so I like an old man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.†   (source)
  • ") Adams, in his earlier notes for an oration at Braintree, had written, "Nature throws us all into the world equal and alike…… The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man [kings included] to endanger public liberty."†   (source)
  • It is now become a maxim with some, who are even men of merit, that the world esteems a man in proportion as he esteems himself…… I amoften astonished at the boldness with which persons make their pretensions.†   (source)
  • Prohibiting the federal government from using internal taxation violates the maxim of good sense and sound policy.†   (source)
  • New Constitution Doesn't Violate Maxim†   (source)
  • And the structure in the Constitution fulfills the maxim better than making the federal judiciary part of the legislature.†   (source)
  • It was a basic maxim of the ancient Lacedaemonian commonwealth that no one could serve as their navy's commander-in-chief twice.†   (source)
  • They have developed from the maxim of republican jealousy, which considers power as safer in the hands of a number of men than of a single man.†   (source)
  • These Papers explain the separation of powers maxim It is not violated by giving the ultimate power of judging to part of the legislature.†   (source)
  • The first objection: It violates the separation of powers maxim because the Senate will have both legislative and judicial authority.†   (source)
  • If the authors of the objection insist that the Supreme Court must be part of the legislature, they must renounce the meaning of the separation of powers maxim.†   (source)
  • Legal Maxim Cited†   (source)
  • Maxim Used Incorrectly†   (source)
  • He had a double name; he was called Maxim Aristarkhovich Klintsov-Pogorevshikh-or just Pogorevshikh, as he asked Zhivago to call him, in honor of his uncle who bore this name.†   (source)
  • MORE (With some o f the academic's impatience for a shoddy line o f reasoning) Not so, Master Secretary, the maxim is "qui tacet consentire.†   (source)
  • All along the road were big boards about ten feet high, uniformly painted, each with a separate saying or maxim of the President.†   (source)
  • Maxims have been absolutely useless against their armour; the field guns have been disabled by them.†   (source)
  • The Catholic Church or the maxims of Confucius?†   (source)
  • "—these were some of his golden maxims,—"Never take paper-money.†   (source)
  • The political conduct of Washington was always guided by these maxims.†   (source)
  • I was afraid of the bias of those worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to hear.†   (source)
  • PREPARED as Clyde was to dislike all this, so steeped had he been in the moods and maxims antipathetic to anything of its kind, still so innately sensual and romantic was his own disposition and so starved where sex was concerned, that instead of being sickened, he was quite fascinated.†   (source)
  • He was full of moral maxims for boys.†   (source)
  • He had edified the National Interurban Trolley Council, meeting at Wichita, on "Health Maxims for Trolley Folks."†   (source)
  • About eleven, the next morning's papers were able to say, a squadron of hussars, two Maxims, and about four hundred men of the Cardigan regiment started from Aldershot.†   (source)
  • When they had politely labored through the fried chicken and brick ice cream, through the maxims, gurglings and memories, Martin and Leora went forth and spoke in tongues: "Pickerbaugh must be a saint, if Watters roasts him.†   (source)
  • And even though in his heart this long while he had secretly rebelled against nearly all the texts and maxims to which his parents were always alluding, deeply resenting really as worthless and pointless the ragamuffin crew of wasters and failures whom they were always seeking to save, still, now he was inclined to think and hesitate.†   (source)
  • His conversation was a series of maxims and admonitions: "If you stay with the Department of Public Health for a couple of years and take care to meet the right people, you'll be able to go into very lucrative practice here.†   (source)
  • He was given too observing individuals, not to judging of them according to maxims, and no one knew better than he that all men were not like himself.†   (source)
  • And well do they deserve such honorable estimation; for the maxims of wisdom and virtue which fall from their lips come from as deep a spiritual source, and tend to as lofty a religious aim, as those of the sagest philosophers of old.†   (source)
  • He would not allow himself to dwell long upon these conjectures, maxims, and hopes, and at twenty minutes to twelve he again went softly to the stable, harnessed the horse, and lit the lamps; whence, taking the horse by the head, he led him with the covered car out of the yard to a spot by the roadside some quarter of a mile below the inn.†   (source)
  • Is not life replete with more instruction than past observers have found it possible to write down in maxims?†   (source)
  • Go back again, now you have seen us, and your outward eyes have learned that in spite of all the infallible maxims of your day there is yet a time of rest in store for the world, when mastery has changed into fellowship—but not before.†   (source)
  • These, sire, are my maxims of state: then do not judge me to be a seditious and thieving rascal because my garment is worn at the elbows.†   (source)
  • His tongue was again heard in wholesome maxims, and his eye from time to time recognised the persons of his friends.†   (source)
  • Mahommed professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws, and theories of science.†   (source)
  • The political maxims of the country depend therefore on the mass of the people, not on the President alone; and consequently in America the elective system has no very prejudicial influence on the fixed principles of the Government.†   (source)
  • Gamut stood at his side, his meek head bared to the rays of the sun, while his eyes, wandering and concerned, seemed to be equally divided between that little volume, which contained so many quaint but holy maxims, and the being in whose behalf his soul yearned to administer consolation.†   (source)
  • An offal-barrel and a lumber-garret, Or, at the best, a Punch-and-Judy play, With maxims most pragmatical and hitting, As in the mouths of puppets are befitting!†   (source)
  • …beauty, and, after having successively rejected the Queen of Golconda, the Princess of Trebizonde, the daughter of the Grand Khan of Tartary, etc., Labor and Clergy, Nobility and Merchandise, had come to rest upon the marble table of the Palais de Justice, and to utter, in the presence of the honest audience, as many sentences and maxims as could then be dispensed at the Faculty of Arts, at examinations, sophisms, determinances, figures, and acts, where the masters took their degrees.†   (source)
  • These leaders had corn in abundance, and would not let them partake of it; they adopted as a maxim—for they, too, had maxims—that it was of very little consequence that women, children, and old men should die, so long as the men who were to defend the walls remained strong and healthy.†   (source)
  • I do not hesitate to say that most of the maxims commonly called democratic in France would be proscribed by the democracy of the United States.†   (source)
  • All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims, and that to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.†   (source)
  • She was in unison with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume.†   (source)
  • One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law.†   (source)
  • Madame de Villefort listened with avidity to these appalling maxims and horrible paradoxes, delivered by the count with that ironical simplicity which was peculiar to him.†   (source)
  • Only a few of these young men, among them Boris, entered more deeply into Julie's melancholy, and with these she had prolonged conversations in private on the vanity of all worldly things, and to them she showed her albums filled with mournful sketches, maxims, and verses.†   (source)
  • And the man of maxims is the popular representative of the minds that are guided in their moral judgment solely by general rules, thinking that these will lead them to justice by a ready-made patent method, without the trouble of exerting patience, discrimination, impartiality,—without any care to assure themselves whether they have the insight that comes from a hardly earned estimate of temptation, or from a life vivid and intense enough to have created a wide fellow-feeling with all…†   (source)
  • When a religion founds its empire upon the desire of immortality which lives in every human heart, it may aspire to universal dominion; but when it connects itself with a government, it must necessarily adopt maxims which are only applicable to certain nations.†   (source)
  • The Americans do not read the works of Descartes, because their social condition deters them from speculative studies; but they follow his maxims because this very social condition naturally disposes their understanding to adopt them.†   (source)
  • To evade the bondage of system and habit, of family maxims, class opinions, and, in some degree, of national prejudices; to accept tradition only as a means of information, and existing facts only as a lesson used in doing otherwise, and doing better; to seek the reason of things for one's self, and in one's self alone; to tend to results without being bound to means, and to aim at the substance through the form;—such are the principal characteristics of what I shall call the…†   (source)
  • I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public opinion, and a certain tenor to the laws; by imparting new maxims to the governing powers, and peculiar habits to the governed.†   (source)
  • As the principal aim of these bodies is to act, and not to debate, to fight rather than to persuade, they are naturally led to adopt a form of organization which differs from the ordinary customs of civil bodies, and which assumes the habits and the maxims of military life.†   (source)
  • Where society has acquired a sufficient degree of stability to enable it to hold certain maxims and to retain fixed habits, the lower orders are accustomed to respect intellectual superiority and to submit to it without complaint, although they set at naught all those privileges which wealth and birth have introduced among mankind.†   (source)
  • The Americans form one people in relation to their Federal Government; but in the bosom of this people divers political bodies have been allowed to subsist which are dependent on the national Government in a few points, and independent in all the rest; which have all a distinct origin, maxims peculiar to themselves, and special means of carrying on their affairs.†   (source)
  • Under these circumstances the social power is constantly changing hands, because it is subordinate to the power of the people, which is too apt to forget the maxims of wisdom and of foresight in the consciousness of its strength: hence arises its danger; and thus its vigor, and not its impotence, will probably be the cause of its ultimate destruction.†   (source)
  • Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.†   (source)
  • I had fifty minds to buy it myself, for it is one of my maxims always to buy a good horse when I meet with one; but it would not answer my purpose, it would not do for the field.†   (source)
  • She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.†   (source)
  • It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes, Mr. Cornwall (one of the Lords of the Treasury) treated the petition of the New-York Assembly with contempt, because THAT House, he said, consisted but of twenty-six members, which trifling number, he argued, could not with decency be put for the whole.†   (source)
  • The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate.†   (source)
  • My family always call me Maxim, I'd like you to do the same.†   (source)
  • 'I must be very inhuman, then,' said Maxim.†   (source)
  • Maxim,' I whispered, 'what are you saying, what are you trying to tell me?†   (source)
  • 'Damn Mrs Danvers,' said Maxim, 'she's not God Almighty, is she?†   (source)
  • Maxim had said he was quite harmless, and so had Frank.†   (source)
  • Maxim did not answer for a moment; he bent down, and threw a stick for Jasper.†   (source)
  • 'He won't get much change out of them,' said Maxim.†   (source)
  • 'He was by that rock a minute ago, sniffing a dead seagull,' said Maxim.†   (source)
  • 'We'll give that to you to do,' said Maxim, smiling at me.†   (source)
  • It must be because Maxim had gone to London.†   (source)
  • Maxim was sitting in his chair, Jasper at his feet, the old dog in her basket.†   (source)
  • If Maxim had been there I should not be lying as I was now, chewing a piece of grass, my eyes shut.†   (source)
  • I was free now to be with Maxim, to touch him, and hold him, and love him.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not thinking of blackmail,' said Maxim.†   (source)
  • Maxim, what have I said? what's the matter?'†   (source)
  • Frank hesitated, half glancing out of the window at Maxim on the lawn.†   (source)
  • But you see, Mrs de Winter, I know Maxim pretty well, and I've seen him through many… moods.†   (source)
  • Chapter twenty-one Maxim went into the little room and shut the door.†   (source)
  • I wanted to be happy, to make Maxim happy, and I wanted us to be together.†   (source)
  • 'You had better leave this to Julyan and myself,' said Maxim quietly.†   (source)
  • I've grown up, Maxim, in twenty-four hours.†   (source)
  • I looked at Maxim but he was reading his paper, he had folded it over to another page.†   (source)
  • You won't have to see them or speak to them, Maxim.†   (source)
  • Ask him about that evening, over twelve months ago, when Maxim had dined with Frank.†   (source)
  • Maxim tells me you only got back last night.†   (source)
  • Maxim does not seem to be particularly fond of her.†   (source)
  • I wanted to be alone with Maxim again, and that it would be like we were in Italy.†   (source)
  • When we came to Barnet itself he made Maxim stop every few minutes.†   (source)
  • Favell turned his head and looked slowly towards Maxim.†   (source)
  • I'll tell Maxim you've gone up, shall I?"†   (source)
  • Maxim's dislike of the cove, the stone cottage.†   (source)
  • And then I realised for the first time that Maxim had not gone away as I had feared.†   (source)
  • 'Maxim,' I said, 'can't we start all over again?†   (source)
  • I knew that he had gone down to the beach to look for Maxim.†   (source)
  • I was too young for Maxim, too inexperienced, and, more important still, I was not of his world.†   (source)
  • I sat on the floor at Maxim's feet, my head against his knees.†   (source)
  • Maxim wanted to be alone again, with Rebecca.†   (source)
  • 'Well?' said Maxim, lighting his first cigarette, 'something had better be done about it.†   (source)
  • You ought to have brought Maxim with you.†   (source)
  • I'm devoted to Maxim, you know, though we always bicker like cat and dog when we meet.†   (source)
  • When Maxim stopped the car I opened my eyes and sat up.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, well — it can't be helped,' said Maxim.†   (source)
  • I supposed when Maxim was away things automatically became slack.†   (source)
  • 'No, I can't see you letting her,' said Maxim.†   (source)
  • 'Sixteen,' said Maxim, 'counting ourselves.†   (source)
  • Here we sat together, Maxim and I, hand-in-hand, and the past and the future mattered not at all.†   (source)
  • 'Maxim went up to Edgecoombe to identify her,' he said.†   (source)
  • 'You've got her to thank for it,' said Maxim, nodding at me.†   (source)
  • But it was not what I had thought; it was not my idea of Maxim.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, Lord,' said Maxim, making a face at me.†   (source)
  • Did — did Maxim mind her going off alone like that?†   (source)
  • I had not come down for Maxim's sake, for Beatrice's, for the sake of Manderley.†   (source)
  • Presently Maxim would come back and tell me.†   (source)
  • He broke off short as the door opened, and Maxim came into the room.†   (source)
  • When we came close to her I saw that she had a strong, rather uncanny, resemblance to Maxim.†   (source)
  • I remembered Maxim's voice raised in anger, using the words that Mrs Danvers had just repeated.†   (source)
  • He had seen Maxim take the boat from the moorings, and pull back in the dinghy, alone.†   (source)
  • My first feeling was one of thankfulness that Maxim was not there to hear.†   (source)
  • That was the last weekend Bee and Giles ever spent at Manderley,' said Maxim.†   (source)
  • The door opened and Maxim came into the room, with Frank just behind him.†   (source)
  • Maxim had seemed almost irritable when he suggested we should go into the garden.†   (source)
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