#maxims

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

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

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#find #great #hand #happy #happy life

Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#maxims #sagacious-sayings #love