They would remain ready to use for no more than six

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

— Johannes Brahms

Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at…

— Ilona Andrews

I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've…

— Joss Whedon

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

— George Herbert

Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In…

— Jim Butcher

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

— Richard Francis Burton

My favourite song of Elton's is... it's a tricky one for me. I'm a proper fan and I've probably seen him in concert about…

— Matt Lucas

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly…

— Richard Engel

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

— Julianne Malveaux

Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible…

— Joseph J. Romm

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

— Jim Rohn

“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that…

— Arundhati Roy

“Triump is just a little umph added to try.”

— Tim Owens

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

— Michel de Montaigne

While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of…

— Liya Kebede