Surest Quotes

271 Surest quotes by 217 unique authors

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support. — George Washington
The surest way to be alone is to get married. — Gloria Steinem
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. — Mark Twain
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It… — Karen Armstrong
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is… — Miguel de Cervantes
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. — Marya Mannes
The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it. — Gordon W. Allport
Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers… — Barton Gellman
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man… — Charles Tennyson Turner
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. — Bill Watterson
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. — John Randolph
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail. — Phil Crosby
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest… — Edward Coke
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. — Francis Jeffrey
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. — Dorothy Corkille Briggs
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness… — Theodore C. Sorensen
Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find… — Robert J McCracken
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice. — Henry Louis Mencken
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling. — Douglas Jerrold
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country — George Washington
Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness — George Washington
In business the man who engages in the most adventures is surest to come out unhurt — Karl Marx
My only surest comfort is Christ. — Terry Mark

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