Quotes by Maxims ... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn maxims doubt I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself Baron de Montesquieu maxims impossible There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. Blaise Pascal all-that-remains maxims world All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice. Blaise Pascal maxims remains practice It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. Charles Caleb Colton maxims argument wise I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that. Cheyenne Kimball maxims artist lows You know, I'd love to do a Maxim shoot. But I'm not going to do it, because that's just stupid to do. Christy Carlson Romano maxims stupid knows The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful. Elizabeth Janeway maxims guides powerful Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. Friedrich Nietzsche maxims miscellaneous hate Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self. Friedrich Nietzsche maxims successful self It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all. Henry Fielding maxims trust persons Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not. Hilaire Belloc maxims whatever-happens gun Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application. James Ellis application maxims needs Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. James Mackintosh good-sense maxims inspiring It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. Jean Racine maxims all-things common If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life. Joseph Lelyveld maxims circumstances experts Good maxims are the germs of all excellence. Joseph Joubert maxims germs excellence The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers. Karl Shapiro maxims two-sides answers The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim Larry Niven maxims values There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur. Lawrence M. Krauss forbidden maxims students 12»