Maxims

Two dozen archy stories are available on the Reading Room page, but no collection of light verse would be complete without a few of the shortest, funniest lines from that determined cockroach: "certain maxims of archy." ❋ Unknown (1995)

Some Samples of Archy & Mehitabel from John Batteiger's fine Archy site mehitabel was once cleopatra the song of mehitabel pity the poor spiders mehitabel's extensive past archy interviews a pharaoh certain maxims of archy the cockroach who had been to hell the flattered lightning bug mehitabel and her kittens pete the parrot and shakespeare the big bad wolf what the ants are saying ❋ Unknown (1995)

For additional poems and short stories, check out our Don Marquis Reading Room. the coming of archy mehitabel was once cleopatra the song of mehitabel pity the poor spiders mehitabel s extensive past archy interviews a pharaoh certain maxims of archy the cockroach who had been to hell warty bliggens, the toad the flattered lightning bug mehitabel and her kittens the lesson of the moth ❋ Unknown (1935)

Wonderful also is his power of summing up the phenomena of life and the riddles of the soul in short maxims and antitheses, or in pregnant sentences and new connotations. ❋ 1851-1930 (1911)

I have endeavored to give the result of my own reading and observation in maxims of plain practical good-sense, written with earnestness and simplicity of style. ❋ Unknown (1831)

One of the truest political maxims is that you can’t beat something with nothing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of his most famous maxims is “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing,” although he did not coin the phrase and the exact words he used are disputed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

+ (3) "Admonitions" (Gnomai) or "Chapters" (kephalaia), about 200 precepts drawn up in short maxims (ib., ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

All his maxims were the suggestions of pedantry and prejudice; so that his perception was obscured, his judgment biased, his address awkward, and his conversation absurd and unentertaining: yet such as I have represented this tutor, are the greatest part of those animals who lead raw boys about the world, under the denomination of travelling governors. ❋ Unknown (2004)

These are the canones; the entire remaining portion, even the summaries of the canons and the chronological indications, are called the maxims or dicta Gratiani. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A kingdom of ends is thus only possible on the analogy of a kingdom of nature, the former however only by maxims, that is self-imposed rules, the latter only by the laws of efficient causes acting under necessitation from without. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Neither nature nor art contains anything which in default of these it could put in their place, for their worth consists not in the effects which spring from them, not in the use and advantage which they secure, but in the disposition of mind, that is, the maxims of the will which are ready to manifest themselves in such actions, even though they should not have the desired effect. ❋ Unknown (1909)

But though his maxims are the perfect expression of courtesy and good feeling with an occasional spice of paradox, such as the command to love one's enemies, yet the experience of nearly twenty centuries has shown that this morality is not for the citizens of the world. ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)

The maxims, that is to say, are the consequences of the philosophy. ❋ Francis Greenwood Peabody (1891)

Mordaunt's contemplations are devoted, yet have I often recalled his maxims, with admiration at their depth, and obtained applause for opinions which were only imperfectly filtered from the pure springs of his own. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

As the chief difficulty arises from these great distances, we should recall our maxims on deep lines of operations, strategic reserves, and eventual bases, as the only ones applicable; and here it is that their application is indispensable, although even that will not avert all danger. ❋ Henri Jomini (1824)

'My adored Mrs. Arlbery!' cried he, (hoisting himself upon the shop counter, and swinging a switch to and fro, with a languid motion) 'your maxims are all of the first superlative, except this; but nobody's civil now, you know; 'tis a fogramity quite out.' ❋ Unknown (1796)

In doing this, we find the inquiry wonderfully abridged indeed, and the conclusion reduced nearly to a mathematical certainty, by observing that the change of maxims, that is to say, the change in ways of thinking, whenever it has taken place, has followed soon after the introduction of wealth and refinement, which change manners, and consequently maxims. ❋ William Playfair (1791)

Student 1: I think I failed [that math] test, [if only] I was as smart as Maxime. Student 2: Actually Maxime didn't [do so] well either because he didn't study what so ever. ❋ Sheepylolz (2018)

[The exchange] [student] Maxime is so cool, I will [miss] him when he is gone. ❋ B0nez13 (2007)

Maxim [the best] ❋ 32hey (2019)

My mom made me shop at the Gap all my life. Now that I'm on my own, I've rejected Functional [Minimalism]. Instead I choose the path of Maximalism, as you can tell from the [calligraphic] skulls all over this copy of "Beautiful Decay." Wanna see my [inkblot] doodles? ❋ Rainbow Coma (2009)

They are [such a] Maxim.... ❋ Ellie.Kloe24 (2020)

Girl 1: [Maxime] is so loving. [Girl 2]: Yeah [any girl] will be lucky to have him. ❋ Rose Lilly (2018)

[Whoa]! That [earthquake] was a 8.9 on [the richter], Maxime style! ❋ Mob_14 (2011)

the maxim was very [powerful] and [everyone] believed it. ❋ Jkmh (2008)

[Liz]: I’m [too short] to see the stage. Amy: Don’t worry, Maxime’s [got your back]. ❋ Brian Ralph Johnson (2018)

boy 1: man, [im in love] with this girl, shes different from the rest, and so sweet! boy 2: me too! I mean, she doesnt even flirt.. she's just herself.. and i love her! boy 3: is she by any chance a [maxime]? boy 1: damn.. [how'd] you know ? ❋ Bog-segat (2012)