Surest Quotes

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; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

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 excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

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 be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

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 with technicians.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

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

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

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.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

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 as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

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

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 marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

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 an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

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.

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 ways.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.