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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

You’ve traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I’ve picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they’re much easier to carry.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace).

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years’ task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it’s done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them.

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

In America you’re conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ’s sake?

At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the sea-shore in ten years.

I fear John Knox’s prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning’s work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it’s all basically the same.

Pilates introduced me to muscles I never even knew I had. Soon I started to feel longer and leaner. Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

Ten minutes? That’s the women. It’s not for the men; not for the real game, mate.

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don’t have a dime in your pocket.

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

On a scale of one to ten, I’m probably a six when it comes to flirting. I’m quite shy.

I’d rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

There’s something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.