CERTAINTY

Related Subjects: Confidence, Doubt, Security, Surety, Suspense

1. To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.—AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
   

2. No great deed is done
   By falterers who ask for certainty.—GEORGE ELIOT, The Spanish Gypsy
   

3. As sure as death.—BEN JONSON, Every Man in His Humour
   

4. All cares of mortal men did they forget,
   Except the vague desire not to die,
   The hopeless wish to flee from certainty,
   That sights and sounds we love will bring on us
   In this sweet fleeting world and piteous.—WILLIAM MORRIS, Life and Death of Jason
   

5. The only certainty is that nothing is certain.—PLINY THE ELDER, Historia Naturalis
   

6. Quit not certainty for hope..—Proverb
   

7. Sure as the coat on your back..—Proverb
   

8. Sure as God made little apples.—Proverb