Surest Quotes

271 Surest quotes by 217 unique authors

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. — Thomas S. Monson
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to… — Ashley Montagu
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is… — Georges Pompidou
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than… — Alan Rickman
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his… — Benjamin Spock
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him;… — Henry L. Stimson
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. — Mark Twain
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of… — George Washington
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy.… — George Washington
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. — Bill Watterson
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. — Dick Wolf
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. — Tom Wolfe
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the… — Mark Twain
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once… — Viktor E. Frankl
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity;… — Barack Obama
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the… — Neal Stephenson
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a… — Mark Twain
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may… — Thomas Ligotti

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