| 1. | Therefore this maxim out of love I teac. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | the said philosophers very wisely reducing the good lady's proceedings to matters of maxim and theor. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | and, in an extended form, we find the maxim propounded by Creon i. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | "It was a maxim of one of my former employers, sir--as I believe I mentioned to you once before--the present Lord Bridgnorth, that there is always a way. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 6. | The province of Holland, accordingly, is said to follow this maxim at present. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 7. | The transcendental maxim that "Life per se is precious" is the ruling maxim here. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim time is money. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 10. | In societate humana hoc est maxime necessarium ut sit amicitia inter multos.. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 11. | This tax, therefore, so far offends against the first of the four maxims above mentioned. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 12. | Such taxes are, therefore, directly contrary to the first of the four maxims above mentioned. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 13. | --Shatter, shatter, O my brethren, those old tables of the pious Tatter the maxims of the world-maligners-. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 14. | By such maxims as these, however, nations have been taught that their interest consisted in beggaring all their neighbours. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 15. | The evident justice and utility of the foregoing maxims have recommended them, more or less, to the attention of all nations. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 16. | Thus spake Zarathustra to himself while ascending, comforting his heart with harsh maxims for he was sore at heart as he had never been before. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 17. | Upon the whole, such taxes, therefore, are perhaps as agreeable to the three first of the four general maxims concerning taxation, as any other. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 18. | An offal-barrel and a lumber-garret, Or, at the best, a Punch-and-Judy play, With maxims most pragmatical and hitting, As in the mouths of puppets are befittin. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |