Sentence examples for maxim that it from inspiring English sources
His books contain some of the finest prose writing of the past century and disprove Wilde's maxim that "it is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating".
Vin Cipolla, the president of the Municipal Art Society, is leading a tour of Broadway between Columbus Circle and 23rd Street, in keeping with Jacobs's maxim that "it is most important to look at the real world, not at what somebody has said is right".
Writing in his 2010 memoir, Hitch-22, Hitchens said that he hoped and believed his "advancing age has not quite shamed my youth", disavowing the "'simple' ordinary propositions" of his younger days in favour of the maxim that "it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties".
Moishe and David were influenced by the Bund's political pragmatism, embodied in its maxim that "It is better to go along with the masses in a not totally correct direction than to separate oneself from them and remain a purist".
But after a long delay the result came in at 46.5%, supporting Stalin's famous maxim that it is the counting rather than the voting that matters.
But in her intelligence-committee job, which she held for seventeen years, she modelled herself on Machiavelli's maxim that it is better to be feared than loved.
It is a maxim that has powered him to four Eclipse Awards in the past six years as North America's top rider.
Whether it is a maxim that can be applied to the Denmark striker, however, is much more debatable.
It's a maxim that has come to define our ideas about the reach of social networks – and there's some truth in it too.
Theatrically, it disproves the philistine maxim that intellectual comedy can never produce belly laughs.
