Who is unknown. a maxim revised?

Famous quotes containing the words maxim and/or revised:

    In controlling men:
    If at first you don’t succeed,
    Why, cry, cry, again.
    —Unknown. A Maxim Revised (l. 3–4)

    Coming to Rome, much labour and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you you will not find Him.
    Anonymous 9th century, Irish. “Epigram,” no. 121, A Celtic Miscellany (1951, revised 1971)