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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
— William Graham Sumner
You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
— Andrew Carnegie
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.— Dale Dauten
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
— Randall Jarrell
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
— Francis Marion Crawford
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
— Mary Lyon
In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
— Horace Walpole
Faithfulness is nine-tenths of marital success.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
"vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.
— G.K. Chesterton
Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.
— Maggie Shipstead
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art - not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.
— Peter S. Beagle
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
— C.S. Lewis
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
— Kin Hubbard
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
— John Maynard Keynes
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
— Anatole France
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
— Bertrand Russell
Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
— James Parton
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
— Chester Barnard
Saving became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth
— John Maynard Keynes
Obsessions are nine tenths of my flaws.
— Atticus
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
— H.L. Mencken
Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.
— Zadie Smith
A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place
— Bill McKibben
