Sentence examples for has a maxim from inspiring English sources

Worried about all the inadequate savings, George Papadopoulos, a financial planner in Novi, Mich., has a maxim.

Fortunately, the sport has a maxim handy to comfort the trainer and anyone else who was either heart- or bank-broken by Officer's failure: the best thing about 2-year-olds is that in January they turn 3.

Clive James has a maxim to the effect that, in any work of art where there are "levels of reality", there will always be one that is really real.

A related aspect of Kant's theory of freedom is what Henry Allison calls Kant's "Incorporation Thesis," according to which particular inclinations, impulses, and feelings do not constitute reasons for action unless an agent has a maxim of satisfying them (Allison 1990).

The Jesuits have a maxim, "Give me the child until he is seven, and I will show you the man".

Those of us who've done a little ghostwriting have a maxim: May as well leave out the stuff you'd only lie about anyway.

The category of Relation has a single maxim, "Be relevant", while the final category of Manner has a short "super" maxim "Be perspicuous" which has various submaxims (1989, 27).

"Real religion," said MacMurray, has a different maxim: "Fear not; the things you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of".

Alex Meadows has not found the move to secondary school an easy one, and has developed a maxim for staying out of trouble: don't react.

Patient safety has been placed high on the societal agenda in the last decade although Premium non nocere ('first do no harm') has been a maxim of healthcare professionals for many centuries.

Winston Churchill's famous remark that England had been "offered a choice between war and shame" and by choosing shame would get war, too, is only the most eloquent expression of what has become a maxim of international diplomacy.