Top Maxim Quotes

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only p...

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Maxim Definition

(n.) An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.

(n.) The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own mo...

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling i...

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.