Surest Quotations

Of all that gives politeness birth,Of all that claims to please,In motion, manners, or in mirth,The surest source is ease.

Of all that gives politeness birth, Of all that claims to please, In motion, manners, or in mirth, The surest source is ease.

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

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.

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness

Share your joy, your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate. That is the surest means of winning divine grace.

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

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.

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

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