Sentence examples for maxim more from inspiring English sources

The man with a secret is the man with power, Aristotle observes, and no life could illustrate the truth of the maxim more emphatically than that of Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philbyby, pupil of Westminster School and Cambridge graduate, clubman, cricket enthusiast, bon viveur and tireless party-thrower, ace undercover agent and, as Ben Macintyre would have it, great betrayer.

Recognition of the worth of a human being is, according to the maxim, more important than caring for wealth.

Nowhere is this maxim more applicable than kitchen hygiene.

The demands of my new stepped-up regimen are testing these maxims more than ever, so we'll see what transpires over the next couple of weeks.

But with each passing day, the old maxim, "The more things change, the more they stay the same", has increasing relevance.

Of no howlingly dysfunctional nuclear family unit could this maxim be more true than the Royal Tenenbaums.

Dennis, the larger-than-life British publisher-turned-versifier (he once told a Vanity Fair reporter that if he gets lung cancer he will "'die by an overdose of crack cocaine with an 18-year-old perched on top of me'") is best known in the U.S. for launching the men's magazine Maxim, and more recently for possibly confessing to a murder at one of his booze-soaked readings.

Although the last maxim sounds more straightforward, Kant is careful to emphasize its difficulty: it "can only be achieved through the combination of the first two and after frequent observance of them has made them automatic" (5:295).

And head over to Maxim for more.

He also meets Maxim several more times, but is baffled by how his friend seems to change personalities periodically.

Islamists like to say "Islam is religion and politics," but this is no Prophetic tradition, it is a maxim little more than a century old.