Zitat des Tages über Sicherer Weg / Sure Way:
The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.
Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Is there any way to safeguard and acquire wealth? Yes, there is one sure way: namely, never to covet the wealth of another.