#maxim

They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. "Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned. "That can be his Indian name," I suggested. ↗

— James Patterson

#humor #maximum-ride #humor

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. ↗

— Akhenaton

#give #guide #hear #heart #heed

I must use Ferrari to the maximum. My priority is to get results. Then we will see what happens. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#get #happens #i #maximum #must

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it. ↗

— William R. Alger

#appreciate #closely #correctly #created #exercise

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport. ↗

— Fernando Alonso

#live #maximum #me #seven #simple

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#maxims #philosophy #science #experience

I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#children #clothes #get #i #maximum

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#maximum #optimum #population #than #then

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. ↗

— James Buchanan

#avoid #been #days #dispute #ever

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#believing #fall #go #government #governments