The maxim is the essence of a person's wit, the wisdom of all the people together, the wisdom of the wise, the experience of the aged, all in the proverb.
格言，可以作為人們行為規範的言簡意賅的語句。從句法結構角度說，格言是相對完整、相對獨立的句子，可以獨立用來表達思想。
Proverbs, as it can be standardized concise and comprehensive statement. From the perspective of syntactic structure, the maxim is relatively complete and relatively independent of the sentence, can be used to express ideas independently.
言簡，促人有美德。如：「滿招損，謙受益。」。《宋史·吳玠傳》：「玠善讀史，凡往事可師者，錄置座右，積久，墻牖皆格言也。」
So, to promote the people of virtue. Such as: "Pride hurts, modesty benefits. "."History of the Song Dynasty, Wu Jie Jie biography": "good histories, all the past can be recorded one seat right, or you are also saying, wall. "
在內容上它是人生經驗和規律的總結，具有教育意義；在語言形式上簡潔而精練。因此，格言與諺語、名言、警句、箴言等有著直接的血緣關系，可以說，只要是有教育意義的精練語句，都可以稱為格言。只是諺語來源於民間無名氏之口，或經眾人加工而成，而名言則大多數出於名人之口。
In content, it is the summary of the life experience and the rule, has the education significance; in the language form concise and concise. Therefore, maxims and proverbs, sayings, proverbs, aphorisms, is closely related, it can be said that as long as the concise statement instructive, can be called a maxim. Just from the mouth of the anonymous folk proverbs, or by all processing, and mostly out of famous celebrities.