It was a maxim about Middlemarch, and regarded as self-evident, that good meat should have good drink, which last Dagley interpreted as plenty of table ale well followed up by rum-and-water.
They knew Peter's maxim, that money was a good egg, and should be laid in a warm nest.
"You evidently don't believe in the maxim: Act so that every one of your actions is capable of being made into a universal rule.
"" I never really understood this maxim until I put it into practice.
"It ticks all the boxes in terms of functionality as a plastic straw that everyone's been used to growing up," says Maxim Gelmann, founder of Stroodles, the startup.
"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.
No longer virtuous no longer free, is a maxim as true with regard to a private person as a common-wealth.
The men and women in these photographs, taken by Maxim Babenko last year, share an underground union with scientists scattered around the world in equally deep places: the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, S.
He displayed another maxim: "It's not done until it ships.
His guiding principle was "Form follows emotion," "", a play on the familiar maxim that form follows function.
Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs's design philosophy: ,,··,: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Think what tedious years of study, thought, practice, experience, went to the equipment of that peerless old master who was able to impose upon the whole world the lofty and sounding maxim that "Truth is mighty and will prevail the most majestic compound fracture of fact which any of man born has yet achieved.
It is a well-known maxim that you shouldn't visit the supermarket when feeling hungry, but new research suggests the same is true when going out in search of romance.
It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
A good maxim is never out of season.
"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.
"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.
Avoid the lazy person's maxim: "If it isn't broken, why fix it?
The maxim of "ask forgiveness, not permission" seemed to apply.
From a long-sighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
