Together, they set out to illustrate and underline the Popean maxim that a little learning is a dangerous thing.
CHICAGO -- A plan to redevelop the site of the long-closed U.S. Steel plant on the south lakefront here is ambitious even in a city whose attitude has long been Daniel Burnham's maxim, "Make no little plans".
The bigger they are, the harder they fall: This little maxim neatly summarizes why we love to watch movies set on Wall Street.
Talk story about the little maxims which run at the top of the John Wanamaker's advertisements, labelled, "From The Founder's Writings".
The New Yorker, May 4 , 1935P. 11 Talk story about the little maxims which run at the top of the John Wanamaker's advertisements, labelled, "From The Founder's Writings".
His new volume, The Book of the Die, which I was reading on the train, is a kind of self-help guide to his life's work, full of little maxims such as 'the price of eternal vigilance is freedom' and 'every belief is an illusion.
Ferrari could always spot a decent rider and is still full of little maxims about what makes a champion, which is what Wiggins undoubtedly is, regardless of what happens in his final serious race as a road cyclist on Sunday, Paris-Roubaix.
Having adhered to its maxim, the bank has little to build on.
He was against organized religion, held Marxist views and quoted Whitman by heart, adopting the poet's maxim, "resist much, obey little," as his personal mantra.
