QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MAXIMS

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

Josh Billings (1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer)

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)

Don't shout for help at night, you may wake your neighbors.

Stanislaw J. Lec (1909-1966, Polish writer)

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

James Mackintosh (1765-1832, British author)

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

William Mathews

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