Sentence examples for One maxim from inspiring English sources

One maxim inscribed on his library walls was from Sextus Empiricus: "To any reason an equal reason can be opposed," and if any principle can be said to underlie the Essays, this might be it.

"Respect the old, cherish the young," runs one maxim.

Mr. Sebastian noted that one maxim in the credit union world is that poverty is not a common bond.

At least one maxim is lost in translation: "Don't gussy up your thoughts" - I wouldn't know how to.

If there is one maxim that sums up the Republican-led legal revolution of the past few years it is: Trust the states.

(Had he survived, Mr. McCandless might well have joined the ranks of latter-day nature writers like Edward Abbey and Bill McKibben.) His credo is perhaps most succinctly stated by Thoreau's mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, who advised that "the ancient precept, 'Know thyself,' and the modern precept, 'Study Nature,' become at last one maxim".

The last group, three officers and thirty-one men, had to cover for the whole regiment, keeping up a steady rate of fire and moving their one Maxim-gun around the position to support the deception that all defences were fully manned.

"So when we do find one like Maxim, we want to embrace it".

One contemporary maxim that could be gleaned from the play is the adage to "stay hungry".

'A culture is only as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamed by artists,' runs one Scientology maxim.

One wise maxim of criticism, passed on to me by my mentor Virgil Thomson, is never criticize the audience.