#maxim

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. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#chew #classy #comic #comic books #dyed

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#give #happiness #human #human life #life

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#displaying #famille #living #maximum #motives

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#danger #defending #few #freedom #generations

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#considered #did #doing #email #had

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.' ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#because #creating #criminals #deals #deserve

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#economic #economic growth #equivalent #government #growth

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. ↗

— St. Jerome

#action #become #general #law #maxim

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates. ↗

— LeBron James

#always #been #court #guy #how

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ↗

— William James

#advantage #better #character #concrete #entirely