| Willan, with all his erudition, was a dermatologist, and acted on the maxim that there is nothing like leather. |
| We could get but one bridle here, which, according to the maxim detur digniori, was appropriated to Dr. Johnson's sheltie. |
| Appearances are deceptive and this maxim gets the full treatment at this point. |
| But the maxim that you can fall in love at any age could hardly be more true than for James Foster and Barbara Scott. |
| Perhaps, the gist of it all could be summed up in the old maxim that truth is stranger than fiction. |
| The latter fail to decipher the real meaning of the Horatian maxim which Titus attaches to the gift. |
