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.

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.

The translator Arthur Waley noted that, " A certain idealization of the ' noble savage ' is to be found fairly often in early Chinese literature ", citing the Zuozhuan maxim, " When the Emperor no longer functions, learning must be sought among the ' Four Barbarians ,' north, west, east, and south.

The significance of this maxim is that applicants to the chancellors often did so because of the formal pleading of the law courts, and the lack of flexibility they offered to litigants.

Paulding's story, " The Politician " contains a maxim that is often attributed to Samuel Gompers: " Reward your friends and punish your enemies.

The maxim " everyone belongs to everyone else " is repeated often, and the idea of a " family " is considered pornographic ; sexual competition and emotional, romantic relationships are rendered obsolete because they are no longer needed.

It further noted that the maxim is often wisely applied where a word is capable of many meanings.

However, some legal scholars criticize this, because generally, in the legal systems of Continental Europe where the maxim was first developed, " penal law " was taken to mean statutory penal law, so as to create a guarantee to the individual, considered as a fundamental right, that he would not be prosecuted for an action or omission that was not considered a crime according to the statutes passed by the legislators in force at the time of the action or omission, and that only those penalties that were in place when the infringement took place would be applied.

The words originate from the phrasing of the principle in the Latin maxim Stare decisis et non quieta movere: " to stand by decisions and not disturb the undisturbed.

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.

The notion of the Program involves " an act to edit function and human activities " as the pretext of architectural design: epitomised in the maxim Form follows function, first popularised by architect Louis Sullivan at the beginning of the 20th century.

This maxim, as interpreted by Bertrand Russell, states that if one can explain a phenomenon without assuming this or that hypothetical entity, there is no ground for assuming it, i. e. that one should always opt for an explanation in terms of the fewest possible causes, factors, or variables.

Hempel rejected this as a solution to the paradox, insisting that the proposition ' c is a raven and is black ' must be considered " by itself and without reference to any other information ", and pointing out that it "... was emphasized in section 5. 2 ( b ) of my article in Mind ... that the very appearance of paradoxicality in cases like that of the white shoe results in part from a failure to observe this maxim.

That led to his wholehearted embrace of Hegelianism, as he became bedazzled by Hegel's famous maxim ; " Everything that exists is rational ".

It was Peirce's own maxim that " Facts cannot be explained by a hypothesis more extraordinary than these facts themselves ; and of various hypotheses the least extraordinary must be adopted.

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.

As referenced by CSI member Martin Gardner, a maxim regularly put into practice by the organization is H. L. Mencken's " one horse-laugh is worth a thousand syllogisms.

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.

Gournay was delighted by the Colbert-LeGendre anecdote, and forged it into a larger maxim all his own: " Laissez faire et laissez passer " (' Let do and let pass ').

" 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.

Nicholas Roerich managed to continue and develop into a profound and feasible doctrine the famous maxim proclaimed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “ Beauty will save the World !”

Bullock's Guardian obituary commented that " Bullock's famous maxim ' Hitler was jobbed into power by backstairs intrigue ' has stood the test of time.

Devotion to the traditional works of mercy exemplified the Catholic Reformation's reaffirmation of salvation through faith and works, and repudiation of the maxim sola scriptura emphasized by Protestants sects.

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.

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.

The maxim is widely quoted in defence of theological and religious freedom, even though it raises the essential question of which things are necessary and which are doubtful or unnecessary.

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.