A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Arthur Helps

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes

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.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
Phil Crosby

Courage is always the surest wisdom.
Wilfred Grenfell

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

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.
Dale Carnegie

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Dick Wolf

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Max Eastman

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.
Brad Bird

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
John Acton

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

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Jean Rostand

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.
Ashley Montagu

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.
Charles Tennyson Turner

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein