Surest Quotes
271 Surest quotes by 217 unique authors
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace,…
— Mark Twain
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Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
— David Lloyd George
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Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
— Walter Scott
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Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.
— Dudley Moore
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Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
— Bernard Barton
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A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generationmy generationknows from four very bitter experiences.…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a…
— Will Rogers
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Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent,…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of…
— Giacomo Casanova
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
— Germaine Greer
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
— Annie Dillard
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
— Arthur Helps
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
— James Russell Lowell
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest…
— James Madison
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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
— Marya Mannes
Who Wrote These Surest Quotes
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