Ten Quotes · Page 7

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

— Dwight L. Moody

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

— Plautus

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

— Louis XIV

This is Frank Carson, News at Ten, Sober.

— Frank Carson

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

— Morrie Schwartz

Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

— Murray Walker

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

— Beilby Porteus

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.

— Tom Lehrer

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

— Chanakya

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A…

— Chuck Close

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and…

— David Josiah Brewer

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office…

— Virgil Goode

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

— William Petty

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

— Chris Martin

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

— Chris Rock

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

— Mark Twain

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I…

— Margaret Cho

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action,…

— Napoleon Hill

As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and…

— Orrin Hatch

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you…

— Benjamin Franklin

Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more…

— Camille Paglia

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never…

— John Osborne

It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is…

— Isabella Beeton

There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and…

— George Clooney

In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery -…

— Woody Allen

More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is…

— Herbert Hoover

There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of…

— Louis O. Kelso

(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an…

— Eric Hobsbawm

I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We are neck and neck but there will be a very - it will be a very tough campaign in the last…

— Dora Bakoyannis

If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue.…

— Elias Chacour

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

— Eugene Mirman

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

— Vince Lombardi

old age' is always ten years more than we are.

— Joan Rivers

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

— Anonymous

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

— Charles Spurgeon

Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.

— Don Meyer

My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.

— John Flavel

... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

— Sam Altman