It is the educated person who "should know better", who is expected to have maxims that arise to ward off foolish, inappropriate, or unethical impulses.
Moreover, as David Wiggins (1978) points out, certain other actions that seem as if they ought to be morally permissible — the act, for instance, of releasing a debtor from his debt out of generosity — have maxims that seem to fail the universalizability test so conceived.
A mistake the former Shah made in 1971 when marking the 2,500-year 2,500-yeary of the founding of the Persianniversaryas having Maxim's of Paris do the banquet.
It is no coincidence that the first three issues will have the Maxim logo above the title of the magazine.
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.
"You can only have a maxim of 170 points in a meet," said Hairpetyan, after Garcia had the final result, 87-85.
"If I've created Maxim, and sold Maxim, and I'm 100 million quid richer, it's over, it's finished.
Some arguments he used have become maxims; for instance, "He will manage to cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters".
Worried about all the inadequate savings, George Papadopoulos, a financial planner in Novi, Mich., has a maxim.
