Surest Quotes

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

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 old too quickly.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

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. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

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.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

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 it.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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 support?

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

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.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

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 would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.