Ten Quotes - page 3

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one. (Ann Druyan)

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Richard Pryor

At the beginning of a decade it is tempting to look ahead for the next ten years.

Lawrence Klein

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage...Like two out of every ten couples.

Neil Simon

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Jules Verne

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Jane Austen

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Jane Austen

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Florence Nightingale

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

William F. Buckley

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. (Ray Bradbury)

There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

H. L. Mencken

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

James Russell Lowell

Alas how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays A face o'er which a thousand shadows go.

William Wordsworth

Ten thousand saw I at a glance; Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

William Wordsworth

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Scott Adams

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Henry Adams

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

Confucius

You must do over the same subject ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must appear accidental, even a movement.

Edgar Degas

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands. (Beilby Porteus)

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Bill Gates

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit.

Smedley Butler

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso

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