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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
— John Lubbock
Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.
— Theodore T. Munger
I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine ... more like cloud ten ... cloud nine was old news.
— Darren Criss
I've been singing since I was nine or ten.
— Kelli O'Hara
If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
— Fannie Flagg
Nine men in ten are suicides.
— Benjamin Franklin
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
— Fulton J. Sheen
...living in Rome is either a one or a two, or a nine or ten. Not much in between. And some days it's both.
— Judith Works
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
— Jon Bon Jovi
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
— Frank Arthur Swinnerton
The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.
— Cal Ripken, Sr.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
— Hobart Brown
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
— Calvin Coolidge
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
— George Bernard Shaw
Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.
— Clint Walker
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
— Hampton Sides
Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
— Kin Hubbard
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
— Antoine Rivarol
Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that
reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe. — Darynda Jones
reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe. — Darynda Jones
Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.
— John Boyne
I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.
— January Jones
You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.
— Mark Lawrenson
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
— Colin Mochrie
Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
— Thomas Sowell
I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'
— Sarah Gavron
Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
— J.D. Salinger
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
— Jane Austen
Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
— Leo Buscaglia
She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.
— J.D. Salinger
Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.
— Brian Robertson
I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.
— Philip Johnson
Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.
— Brenda Strong
I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
— Gary Oldman
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
— Claudine Guerin De Tencin
One, two, three four five,
All is well I am alive,
Six,seven,eight nine ten,
All is well, no whining then! — Eugene Sue
All is well I am alive,
Six,seven,eight nine ten,
All is well, no whining then! — Eugene Sue
Even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
— Edith Wharton
Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
— Carolyn Maloney
I suppose you'd have ten wives if you could."
"I'd be sufficiently miserable with one. The other nine would be redundant. — Lisa Kleypas
"I'd be sufficiently miserable with one. The other nine would be redundant. — Lisa Kleypas
Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
— Douglas MacArthur
When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.
— Harry S. Truman
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
— H.L. Mencken
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
— Benjamin Franklin
If you tell someone ten times that you don't want to talk to him, you are talking to them - nine more times than you wanted to.
— Gavin De Becker
The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.
— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston
Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.
— Kevin Richardson
You think people never say what they mean. The truth is, nine times out of ten what they say is all they mean.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
Murphy's Law; When someone says 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' nine times out of ten, it's the money.
— Mitchell Symons
Remember in all society nine girls out of ten marry for money and nine men out of ten are fools.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right.
— Dale Carnegie
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
— John Churton Collins
Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Fifteen!" Dess's distant cry reached him. "Where the hell are you, Rex? Ten. You're-an-idiot-nine, get-back-here-eight, you-dimwit-seven ...
— Scott Westerfeld
Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine. Nine
— Agatha Christie
When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.
— Peter Mayhew
Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.
— Georgette Mosbacher
It consisted of nine levels, with docking facilities that could handle almost ten thousand ships,
— Mike Resnick
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
— William Feather
If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?
— William Whiting Borden
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
— Jim Butcher
In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
— Peter Lynch
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
— Henry Addington
Whenever I hear about parents who have nine or ten children, the only thing I wonder is how they survive the birthday parties.
— George Carlin
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
— Calvin Coolidge
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
— Billy Wilder
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton