Sentence examples for one maxim from inspiring English sources

One maxim inscribed on his library walls was from Sextus Empiricus: "To any reason an equal reason can be opposed," and if any principle can be said to underlie the Essays, this might be it.

"Respect the old, cherish the young," runs one maxim.

At least one maxim is lost in translation: "Don't gussy up your thoughts" - I wouldn't know how to.

If there is one maxim that sums up the Republican-led legal revolution of the past few years it is: Trust the states.

(Had he survived, Mr. McCandless might well have joined the ranks of latter-day nature writers like Edward Abbey and Bill McKibben.) His credo is perhaps most succinctly stated by Thoreau's mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, who advised that "the ancient precept, 'Know thyself,' and the modern precept, 'Study Nature,' become at last one maxim".

In today's Britain, the traditional marriage vow of: To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, would be better replaced with one maxim: Kill or be killed.

Carfagna had been named "the most beautiful minister in the world", and was ranked number one on Maxim's "World´s Hottest Politicians".

One should agree on maxims, in order to establish a common understanding within the re-engineering team, regarding the goal and the process to achieve it.

Kant's argument for this conclusion is not usually thought of as meriting too much attention, resting as it does on a notoriously tortured use of the idea that one should only act on maxims, or rules of conduct, that can be universalized.

One wise maxim of criticism, passed on to me by my mentor Virgil Thomson, is never criticize the audience.

One is Maxim, 24, who is writing his PhD on Uzbek-Russian and Uzbek-American relations at the Russian State University for the Humanities.