maxim
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To paraphrase the maxim falsely attributed to Lincoln, you can fool a whole bunch of the people for a hell of a long time, but you can’t fool all of them forever.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Her signature maxim — “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” — drew laughs for decades even as it illuminated the unflinching honesty of her creative approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Jody might throw in a maxim long framed on her bathroom wall: “Quityerbellyachin.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Billionaire Warren Buffett had a simple maxim for navigating Berkshire Hathaway through the financial crisis of 2007-09.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
During the years 1919-20 Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, adopted as his own the maxim ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The saying is one of his favorite maxims, but it hasn’t been uttered by any other world leader for centuries.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Be greedy when others are fearful” is one half of one of Warren Buffett’s most well-known investing maxims.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Although sophomoric, especially for a graduate student, I thought it showed, if not a deep understanding, at least a somewhat clever analysis of his famous maxims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
One of his maxims: “The bug is in the crowd.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025
He flung out all his favored maxims as if strewing flowers after my brother.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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