Few maxims are true in every respect

Few maxims are true in every respect

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than read more

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be read more

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could read more

Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right

A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, read more

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted