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| Handla efter den maxim som du skulle vilja upphöja till allmän lag. | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus. | Dan Brown (1964-) |
| All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth | William Mathews |
| When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Few maxims are true in every respect | Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues (1715-1747) |