maxim

“Nowhere is the maxim that ‘justice delayed is justice denied’ more accurate than in labor.”

He hears him, Bridge: the maxims, the strategies.

Gray was still in university and had been living according to the maxim that time outside was best spent being active.

It also neatly illustrates the maxim, attributed to the Soviet Union's World War Two leader Joseph Stalin, that "quantity has a quality of its own."

Winston Churchill once quipped, “The maxim, ‘Nothing prevails but perfection,’ may be spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-S-I-S.”