The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
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.
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 boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
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 be.
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.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
The surest antidote for anxiety is to always do your best and have complete trust in God.
A blanket, as the epitome of warmth, could be used to stop colds. Also, sex with me might be the surest way to prevent a cold.
If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren't failing, then we aren't doing anything interesting.
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.
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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.
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
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.
