Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.