Sure, of qualities demanding praise, / More go 30 to ruin fortunes, than to raise. Pope.
Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil. Goldsmith.
Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters. Hare.
Surely it is better to enclose the gulf and hinder all access, than by encouraging us to advance a little, to entice us afterwards a little further, and let us perceive our folly only by our destruction. Johnson.
Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which can never return. Johnson.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men 35 of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity. Bible.
Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere. Emerson.
Surely the best way is to meet the enemy in the field, and not wait till he plunders us in our very bed-chamber. Goldsmith.
Surely use alone / Makes money not a contemptible stone. George Herbert.
Surement va qui n'a rien—He who has nothing goes securely. Fr. Pr.