The surest sign of age is loneliness. [ A. B. Alcott ]
The ox when he is weary, treads surest. [ Proverb ]
Necessity - thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest promoter of invention. [ Scott ]
The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The surest road to health, say what they will,
Is never to suppose we shall be ill. [ Churchill ]
Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths. [ Mme. Necker ]
What avails it that indulgent Heaven
From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
If we, ingenious to torment ourselves.
Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
Enjoy the present; nor with needless cares
Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
Serene, and master of yourself, prepare
For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven. [ Armstrong ]
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek. [ Cowper ]
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]
Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments. [ Zimmermann ]
The surest way to have redress is to be earnest in pursuit of it. [ Goldsmith ]
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. [ Barton ]
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure is to correct ourselves. [ Demosthenes ]
The surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries. [ La Bruyère ]
The surest way to please is to forget one's self, and to think only of others. [ Moncrif ]
Necessity, thou art the best of peacemaker, as well as the surest prompter of invention. [ Scott ]
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances. [ Cicero ]
The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation. [ Bruyere ]
Tendency to sentimental whining or fierce intolerance may be ranked among the surest symptoms of little souls and inferior intellects. [ Jeffrey ]
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? [ Montaigne ]
The shortest and surest way to prove a work possible is strenuously to set about it; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so. [ South ]
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]