... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.
It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
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
My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.
There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.