Zitat des Tages über Surest:
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.
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.
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
The surest test of discipline is its absence.
The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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.
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
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 sign of age is loneliness.
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.
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.
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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.
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.
Courage is always the surest wisdom.
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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.
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 thing about me is that I will change my mind.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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.
Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
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.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.