Ten Quotes - page 2

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. (E. O. Wilson)

For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.

Laurence Sterne

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

Coretta Scott King

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

George Burns

Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic.

Johnny Depp

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Ray Bradbury

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Daniel Defoe

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

David Hilbert

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. (H. L. Mencken)

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

Will Rogers

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?

Barbra Streisand

Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

Luis Buñuel

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

Spike Milligan

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatcher

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Charles Dudley Warner

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Ronald Reagan

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

Billie Holiday

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. (Giovanni Boccaccio)

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

Henry Ward Beecher

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Mae West

Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

John Dryden

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