The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
John Randolph

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain

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.
Georges Pompidou

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.
Edward Coke

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.
Isaac Pitman

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?
James Madison

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette