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Definition of maxim:

  • (noun) a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits

Sentence Examples:

"The curse of savagery is the lack of employment," was one of Blair's maxims.

It is a maxim good for conquest and despotism; bad, for peace and justice.

The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.

How long did the maxim, that nature abhors a vacuum, content the learned!

To do otherwise was to stoop to the maxims of a sect which he detested.

Reason, with its prudential maxims, has never done much to restrain these passions.

These are the norms, or normative knowledge and science, maxims, rules, and precepts.

Some of our best political maxims and opinions have been drawn from our parent isle.

I should blush to revive the odious and exploded maxim, not men, but measures.

His antitheses, epigrams, well-rounded maxims, figures of speech, never were at a better command.

Much edification is in them, and yet they are but prudential maxims after all.

He shatters the maxims with a touch-and-go manner that is fascinating in its immorality.

The maxim is true, and, on this occasion, success once more demonstrates its soundness.

They all tried to dissuade him, bidding him bear in mind his father's maxims.

Yet I find myself, too, testing with some curiosity the breezy maxims of optimists.

One is full of maxims, rules, and precepts; the other of taste and feeling.

The maxims went crackle like dry brushwood under the feet of a marching host.

Pure and noble were the maxims that she sought to instill into his mind.

Imagine the roadway littered with guns, knapsacks, cartridge belts, Maxims and heavy cannon.

Also in the old maxim, "Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined."

Only it will take some time to compile two hundred pages of maxims and morals.

We no longer read the most unintelligible book of Maxims of the Saints, but Telemachus.

Which may be put down as an unscientific maxim; yet a very true one nevertheless.

Economy, he declared, is the source of liberality, and this maxim he reduced to practice.

It is a sound maxim in law, that the superfluous does not invalidate the essential.

Hillel has bequeathed a greater number of maxims to us than any of his predecessors.

"Be hospitable to all," is a maxim planted in the heart of every Indian child.

For example, there are certain popular maxims and precepts called the ten commandments.

Outside there came a sudden renewal of firing and the spiteful stammer of a maxim.

Unhappily these excellent maxims effect in actual life far less than is to be desired.

The old maxim, "All is fair in love and war," had now a double signification.

His fine scholarship won the scholars and his homely maxims charmed the farmers.

The maxim however, notwithstanding these appearances, may safely be pronounced to be a fallacious one.

This statement and his maxim, "There is no wealth but life," were called "unscientific."

"Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind," is the apostolic maxim.

The unchanging and undying maxim of moral rectitude should be taught to every child.

This maxim, at present so fashionable, not only pleases idleness, but also suits ambition.

These maxims passed into general circulation and adoption, and thus became of proverbial rank.

"I hate the impious crowd and stave them off," was the scholar's maxim then.

An ancient maxim avers that "spoken words fly away, but written ones are permanent."

These gnomes or maxims were extended and put into literary shape by the poets.

Awe of him is the incipient Religion; and his maxims furnish its first precepts.

Along with these religious doctrines, are inculcated the most dangerous maxims of civil conduct.

That moral maxim seemed to suit the party, and all nodded their heads approvingly.

Awe of him is the incipient Religion; and his maxims furnish his first precepts.

Is often repeated by us in thoughtlessness or ignorance of the real character of the maxim.

Our hero's maxim was received with all the enthusiasm which agreeable truisms usually create.

Plato gave no credit to the maxims of the existing society; these were wholly unscientific.

In forming these grand roads, a strait direction seems to have been their leading maxim.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

The maxim that would make one man a careful economist, would make another a miser.

Trample under your feet the immoral side of the maxim that nothing succeeds like success.

It has been the pride of recent historians to vindicate the truth of that maxim.

They exhibited to an astonished world a practical refutation of its corrupt maxims and habits.

He was obviously fully conscious of the literary and philosophic beauty of the famous maxims.

There is a great deal to be said in favor of the maxim "leave your sitters alone."

It is, however, a maxim of English law, that "the King can do no wrong."

Even a specific moral law, thundering unalterable maxims, must seem to him a childish notion.

From another mistake, in extending a particular precept of the drama into a general maxim.

Such a maxim was appropriate and excellent for an opportunist minister of an autocratic sovereign.

His maxims on thrift and moral virtues have been extolled to generations of school children.

She had soon a more serious task than administering gratuitous rebukes and repeating high-sounding maxims.

Imagine a roadway littered with guns, knapsacks, cartridge belts, Maxims and heavy cannons even.

He stopped speaking while upstairs the maxim clattered off belt after belt of cartridges.

He is severed from submission to the maxim because he has got allegiance to the principle.

The maxim, as expressed, professes to aim at happiness, but it more properly belongs to duty.

Relaxation is the certain foe of worry, and 'don't fret' one of the healthiest of maxims.

It is my maxim, that idleness is as much the pest of society as of solitude.

Howard's intimation that he was about to publish a second edition of his Thoughts and Maxims.

Who was it who first uttered the maxim that bad kings should be deposed?

He teaches the children the Chinese classics and the maxims and precepts of Confucius.

Of these maxims the mother delivered herself deliberately as she sat twirling her thumbs.

He had failed because, even with his maxims in their ears, the boys were too headstrong.

The maxims of Benjamin Franklin in regard to idleness, thrift and prosperity were household words.

Liberal prices, and prompt payment, should be an invariable maxim, in dealing with the poor.

This general maxim is tenfold true when we apply it to a European learning an American language.

This general maxim is ten-fold true when we apply it to a European learning an American language.

Pedantic adherence to the composer's own conception is, to my mind, not an unassailable maxim.

All these artless ladies do wonders there, both in the way of actions and maxims.

Preserve me from the corruption of sin, and from the pernicious maxims of the world.

At least something of this kind would seem the maxim upon which backwoods' education is based.

Comte is a fine refutation of the maxim that infant prodigies fall victims to arrested development.

I thought the Indian maxim was that blood alone could wipe out the stain of blood.

It is, I believe, a maxim of law that public rights cannot be lost by disuse.

I have repeatedly heard it asserted as a popular maxim, that all informers should be shot.

Man is severed from submission to the maxim because he has got allegiance to the principle.

Instead of hanging my room with pictures, I intend to adorn it with maxims of frugality.

With very different sensations he perused our fashionable novels, filled with licentious maxims and manners.

They certainly exemplified the professor's maxim: "Never touch the piano without trying to make music."

This maxim may pass also; I would wish only to change something in the phraseology.

He supported the discourse of the first Violin by laconic maxims, striking for their truth.

You find in the former, maxims, rules, and precepts; in the latter, taste and sentiment.

Sara's maxims were diametrically opposed to his; she looked on her love as a bill of exchange.

Her maxims taught me forbearance, tolerance, and the homely lesson of live and let live.

The cold maxims of worldly prudence, the sordid calculations of worldly interests affect me not.

You find in the former maxims, rules, and precepts; in the latter, taste and sentiment.

His professional and household maxims were not of inconsiderable importance, but they were subordinate considerations.

In the Proverbs there is much shrewdness, many pithy and prudent maxims, many wise sayings.

He is helpless as a lawyer hurling maxims of abstract justice ruthlessly in the face of evidence.

When the clergy become teachers of worldly maxims, what can be expected from the laity?