Sentence examples for have a maxim from inspiring English sources

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.

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).

If net positivists have a guiding maxim, then "be positive" sums it up.

R.A.: I have a question about Maxim's.

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).

Location, location, location appears to have been a maxim for Welsh National Opera's new La Bohème.

The second derivative may be turning positive Trickle-down economics Full disclosure Reprints"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants," wrote Louis Brandeis, later a Supreme Court justice, in 1913, and almost a century later his words have become a maxim.