Best Nine Tenths Sayings
- I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine- tenths of our intellectuals can't read any… — Randall Jarrell
- In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland… — John Boyle O'Reilly
- Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. — Theodore Roosevelt
- Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. — Mary Lyon
- Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of… — Benjamin Disraeli
- MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee,… — Ambrose Bierce
- You boast of spending a tenthpart of your income in charity; maybe you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. — Henry David Thoreau (1817_1862)
- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com — C.S. Lewis