This clergyman should have referred to Shakespeare's dictum: `` So-so is a good, very good, very excellent maxim.

Over time, these canons were supplemented with decretals of the Bishops of Rome, which were responses to doubts or problems according to the maxim, " Roma locuta est, causa finita est " (" Rome has spoken, case is closed ").

This rule does not usually apply to intentional torts ( for example, deceit ), and also has stunted applicability to the quantum in negligence where the maxim Intended consequences are never too remote applies ' never ' is inaccurate here but resorts to unforeseeable direct and natural consequences of an act.

The essence of subsidiarity is concisely inherent in the Chinese maxim ' Give someone a fish and you feed him for a day ; teach the person to fish and you feed him for a lifetime '.

* John D. Caputo attempts to explain deconstruction in a nutshell by stating that: " Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell — a secure axiom or a pithy maxim — the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility.

A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized ( given human qualities such as verbal communication ), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson ( a " moral "), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

The Golden Rule or ethic of reciprocity is a maxim, ethical code, or morality

The maxim in vivo veritas (" in a living thing is truth ") used to describe this type of testing is a play on words from in vino veritas, in wine is truth.

This view is frequently summarised by the maxim an unjust law is not a true law, lex iniusta non est lex, in which ' unjust ' is defined as contrary to natural law.

Natural law is sometimes identified with the maxim that " an unjust law is no law at all ", but as John Finnis, the most important of modern natural lawyers has argued, this maxim is a poor guide to the classical Thomist position.

The principle can be traced to a maxim which furnished a text of the Pandects of Justinian: in their Latin version, " Rex solutus est a legibus ", or " The king is released from the laws.

The conception that in religious matters anyone, however ignorant, can judge for himself, is the direct denial of the old Jewish maxim, ‘ The ignorant cannot be pious ’ ( Avot 2: 5 )… The majority vote of a Board of Directors of a synagogue is, after all, a negligible quantity when it is in opposition to the vote of historical Judaism with its myriad of Saints and thousands of Sages … The sorting, distributing, selecting, harmonizing and completing can only be done by experienced hands.

Substances in the molten state generally have reduced viscosity with elevated temperature ; an exception to this maxim is the element sulfur, whose viscosity increases with higher temperatures in its molten state.

" No crime, no punishment without a previous penal law ") is a basic maxim in continental European legal thinking.

" This maxim has become one of the most widely recognized slogans in advertising history.

In defending the pretext for invasion after the fact, Dalhousie quoted the maxim of Lord Wellesley that any insult offered to the British flag at the mouth of the Ganges should be resented as promptly and fully as an insult offered at the mouth of the Thames.

The full force application of the equitable maxim estoppel only allows a litigant to “ use it as a shield and not as a sword ” restricts the application of this doctrine to as far as only to provide a defence to a party and not to be used as a cause of action against another.

" With a maxim such as this, it was easy for him to maintain that Elizabeth's — and his — brutal measures were political and not religious.

The Latin maxim nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare (' no man is bound to accuse himself ') became a rallying cry for religious and political dissidents who were prosecuted in the Star Chamber and High Commission of 16th century England.

His maxim was " There is no rule save the Gospel of Christ "; as this was the basis of all rules, to practise its morality was to fulfil all the duties of a good religious.

Significant changes introduced into the 1968 document included Article 6, which committed the state to adhere to the " principles of socialist internationalism " and to devote special attention to its " fraternal ties " with the Soviet Union ; Article 9, which based the national economy on the " socialist ownership of the means of production "; Article 20, which under pressure from the churches granted freedom of conscience and belief ; Article 21, which maintained that the " basic rights " of citizenship were inseparably linked with " corresponding obligations "; and Article 47, which declared that the principle of " democratic centralism " is the authoritative maxim for the construction of the socialist state.

The influence of Flores Magón on Zapata can be seen in the Zapatistas ' Plan de Ayala, but even more noticeably in their slogan ( this slogan was never used by Zapata ) " Tierra y libertad " or " land and liberty ", the title and maxim of Flores Magón's most famous work.

This maxim means that when individuals are required, by their agreements or by law, to perform some act of legal significance, Equity will regard that act as having been done as it ought to have been done, even before it has actually happened.

This maxim is often displaced by statutory limitations, but even where a limitation period has not yet run, equity may apply the doctrine of " laches ," an equitable term used to describe delay sufficient to defeat an equitable claim.

But even though it is possible that a universal law of nature could subsist in accordance with that maxim, still it is impossible to will that such a principle should hold everywhere as a law of nature.

Whether one chooses to call it " pragmatism " or " pragmaticism "— and Peirce himself was not always consistent about it even after the notorious renaming — his conception of pragmatic philosophy is based on one or another version of the so-called " pragmatic maxim ".

If they are acting on a bad maxim, e. g. " I will lie ", then their action is wrong, even if some good consequences come of it.

It is the usual British maxim that the actions of a King in possession are valid, even when his title is unsound ; but there was also a law of the Kingdom of Ireland that the King of England is automatically King of Ireland-and William and Mary were crowned in England on 11 April 1689.

Performances were further slowed by the need for frequent pauses to change the scenery, creating a perceived need for even more cuts in order to keep performance length within tolerable limits ; it became a generally accepted maxim that Shakespeare's plays were too long to be performed without substantial cuts.

He even makes a reference to Cassius: " let that maxim of Cassius apply ".

The summary of the case reports, " Mr. Wilson had given no power to Noarth to transact his business ; but if he even had, it is a maxim, that delegata potestas non potest delegari.

William of Ockham ( c. 1285 – 1349 ) is remembered as an influential nominalist though his popular fame as a great logician rests chiefly on the maxim attributed to him and known as Ockham's razor.

The maxim fiat justitia, ruat caelum (" Let justice be done, though the heavens fall "), used by Lord Mansfield in Somersett's Case and in reversing the outlawry of John Wilkes, and in the alternate form fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus by Ferdinand of Habsburg, is sometimes attributed to Piso, but this is disputed.

" According to Simon Mann, Steyn " gives succour to the maxim the pen is mightier than the sword, though he is not averse to employing the former to advocate use of the latter.

Forrest's maxim was to: “ Git thar furstest with the mostest .” The controversy lies in the personal history of General Forrest ; after his military duty was over, he became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ( though soon after called for the Klan to disband ).

Milo Minderbinder ’ s maxim “ What ’ s good for M & M Enterprises is good for the country ” alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson ’ s statement before the Senate “ What ’ s good for General Motors is good for the country .” The question of “ Who promoted Major Major ?” alludes to Joseph McCarthy ’ s questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.

However, the second maxim also opens the question of broader definitions of harm, up to and including harm to the society.

The question of the Linda problem may violate conversational maxims in that people assume that the question obeys the maxim of relevance.

The principle underlying the maxim is that each question should elicit a factual answer — facts necessary to include for a report to be considered complete.

Strategic points, he says, not the defeat of the enemy's army, decide the fate of one's own country, and must constantly remain the general's main concern, a maxim which was never more remarkably disproved than in the war of 1809.

This view is frequently summarized by the maxim: an unjust law is not a true law, in which ' unjust ' is defined as contrary to natural law.

1991 ) that the Ninth Amendment was intended to vitiate the maxim of expressio unius est exclusio alterius according to which the express mention of one thing excludes all others:

Its line " Keep pure your highest ideal, strive ever towards it ; let naught stop you or turn you aside, for mine is the secret door which opens upon the door of youth " is used as a maxim for ethical dilemmas.

These are customarily placed under the rubric of Ockham's razor, named after the 14th century Franciscan friar William of Ockham, who is credited with many different expressions of the maxim, not all of which have yet been found among his extant works.

Upon the generation of an explanation ( which he came to regard as instinctively guided ), the pragmatic maxim gives the necessary and sufficient logical rule to abduction in general.

The burden of proof is often associated with the Latin maxim semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, the best translation of which seems to be: " the necessity of proof always lies with the person who lays charges.

As an example of an explicit maxim, at the end of Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, in which the plodding and determined tortoise wins a race against the much-faster yet extremely arrogant hare, the stated moral is " slow and steady wins the race ".

Thus while defenders argue that the three-prong test embodies the maxim that " opportunity drives interest ", critics argue that the three-prong test goes beyond Title IX original purpose of preventing discrimination, and instead amounts to an exercise in which athletic opportunities are taken away from male students and given to female students, despite the comparatively lower interest levels of those female students.

It was believed, for example, that maggots could spontaneously appear in decaying meat ; Francesco Redi carried out experiments which disproved this notion and coined the maxim Omne vivum ex ovo (" every living thing comes from a living thing " — literally " from an egg "), Virchow ( and his predecessors ) extended this to state that the only source for a living cell was another living cell.

Please give us a maxim which will serve to instruct us for the rest of our lives .”

" The actual text of that maxim, as translated by Dennis W. Hauck is " That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing ".

" The ' universal connection ' referred to here is Kant's categorical imperative: " act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

This was not the only occasion on which Akiba was made to feel the truth of his favorite maxim (" Whatever God doeth He doeth for the best ").

In the book, he maintains his maxim " that there is nothing in the intellect which has not been in the senses " ( nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu ), but he contends that the imaginative faculty ( phantasia ) is the counterpart of sense, because it involves material images, and therefore is intrinsically material, and that it is essentially the same both in men and brutes.

Over time, these canons were supplemented with decretals of the Bishops of Rome, which were responses to doubts or problems according to the maxim, Roma locuta est, causa finita est (" Rome has spoken, case is closed ").

A moral maxim must have universality, which is to say that it must be disconnected from the particular physical details surrounding the proposition, and could be applied to any rational being.