Best Ten Quotes

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

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

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 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.

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

Nine out of ten groups that came out in ’89 are gone. I’m still here.

I love doing Pilates and dance. It’s fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days.

When I did ‘Parent Trap,’ I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

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