Tenth Quotes

169 quotes by 148 authors

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of… — Jeremy Bentham
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin
I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk… — Rodney Dangerfield
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had… — Mark Twain
All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten,… — William Shakespeare
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. — Horace Walpole
You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and… — Ramana Maharshi
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to… — P.J. O'Rourke
People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of… — Thomas Sowell
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all… — Katherine Anne Porter
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business… — H. L. Mencken
I told my caddie today that I am in the position that I want to be in. That this is what I have been waiting… — Annika Sorenstam
I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade. — James Worthy
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. — Jake Simmons, Jr.
If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever… — Thomas Woods
It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that… — Paul McCartney
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in… — Ramakrishna
Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth… — Margaret Thatcher
The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list. — Abbie Hoffman
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone

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