Proverbs are the essence of one person’s wit, the wisdom of everyone. The wisdom of smart people and the experience of the elderly are all in proverbs

Proverbs can serve as norms for people’s behavior Concise and concise sentences. From the perspective of syntactic structure, aphorisms are relatively complete and independent sentences that can be used to express thoughts independently.

Simple words encourage people to be virtuous. For example: "If you are full, you will suffer losses, but if you are modest, you will benefit." "History of the Song Dynasty·Biography of Wu Jie": "Jie is good at reading history, and those who can learn from the past will record and record it for a long time. It will be a motto for the walls and windows."

In terms of content, it is a combination of life experience and The summary of rules has educational significance; it is concise and concise in language form. Therefore, maxims have a direct blood relationship with proverbs, famous sayings, aphorisms, proverbs, etc. It can be said that as long as they are concise sentences with educational significance, they can be called maxims. It's just that proverbs come from the mouths of unknown people or are processed by many people, while most famous quotes come from the mouths of famous people.