The word 'maxim' is correct and usable in written English.
A maxim is an established principle or rule of conduct, often expressed in pithy sayings, so it can be used anytime you need to express such a concept. Example sentence: "Actions speak louder than words is a widely known maxim."
One former militant on trial in the US referred to al-Qaida (which in Arabic can also mean a maxim or method), as "a formula system", denying that it was the name of a group.
I was a young journalist; I didn't get on to the newsdesk for three or four years, until the retirement in the early 70s of the news editor, fondly known as "the bosun", whose favoured maxim was "My arse is a teacake".
But operating under the maxim that if you haven't got anything nice to say about someone, say nothing, and in our new capacity as concert organisers with one ear on how a band will come across live, we're going to praise Spector.
It is a maxim that British politicians will be testing to the limit from moments after the first results are declared on Friday morning.
Diane Abbott is Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington There's an old maxim in politics that Nick Clegg knows all too well: attack is the best form of defence.
In Australia, where fans wore T-shirts with the maxim "In Guus we trust," yelled "Gooooooose" in his honour and the captain at the time of their successful run to the World Cup, Mark Viduka, enthused he was the nation's "missing link", it would be a popular choice.
The well-known maxim that people make a decision about you within 30 seconds of a meeting means that projection and style are important.
By 2005, the carmaker promises to cut $9 billion from its costs; this week the company said it was making faster-than-expected progress at the first three plants converted to flexible manufacturing.A long-standing industry maxim holds that you cannot cost-cut your way to prosperity though it certainly would help.
He too has begun to adhere to the strict Sharon maxim that there can be no resumption of political negotiations until all violence is ended entirely.
In the case of hedge funds the maxim applies with special force.
Britain is the country that invented the boarding school for seven-year-olds and the maxim that "children should be seen and not heard".
