Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. — William Wordsworth
Take 7 emcees put em in a line
And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme
It'll take 7 more before I go for mine
And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time. — Rakim
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. — Giovanni Boccaccio
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more. — Catullus
Other daughters-in-law came, they make other cookies — Greek Proverbs
One bird in the hand is better than ten on the roof. — Danish Proverbs
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. — John Ruskin
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' — Jean-Michel Basquiat
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. — Omar Khayyam
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. — Euripides
Earrings are the same as sneezes: Two is okay, but ten in a row is annoying. If you have two then, God bless you. — Demetri Martin
I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy. — Mr. Krabs
Short Dozen Quotes
We have to build a better man before we can build a better society. — Paul Tillich
It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep. — Charles M. Schulz
My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen'. — Jared Kushner
Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen. — Michel de Montaigne
Wives and husbands are a dime a dozen but a true partner is worth their weight in gold. — Alex Hormozi
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all? — Julian Casablancas
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. — Lope de Vega
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches. — Jim Butcher
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. — Paul Tillich
Dozen Image Quotes
Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
Dime A Dozen Quotes
Short-term thinkers are a dime a dozen. Long-term thinkers are extremely rare. History books favor the long-term thinkers. Don't let short-term attention distract you from your long-term vision becoming a reality. Chase the big. — Patrick Bet-David
Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else. — Ray Lewis
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. — Walter Isaacson
Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees. — Leonard Ravenhill
Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find. — Charlie Finley
Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving. — Smokey Robinson
Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless. — Earl Blaik
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others. — David Sinclair
Canadians pay half their income in taxes, wait 2 years to see a specialist, and bleed for 18 hours in an ER next to a dozen addicts looking for free drugs, and then rave about how awesome it is that they have free healthcare. — Saifedean Ammous
One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. — Johannes Brahms
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health. — Paul Stamets
The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like. — Cato the Younger
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents. — Smedley Butler
I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right. — Marvin Gaye
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant. — Marilyn vos Savant
Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like me, who believe in God, than you think. There are not dozens of them, but they are there, and in Cambridge too, and elsewhere. We are not in a tiny minority. — John Lennox
In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list. — Kendrick Meek
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds. — Dale Carnegie
I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. — Christopher Columbus
I know it's a cliche. But, like, literally, I want to create an empire of dozens of talent under me to take my power and multiply it so that I become bigger than myself. — Jake Paul
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. — Jared Diamond
A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it. — George F. Kennan
The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. — Rachel Maddow
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs. — Don Herold
How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine. — Herbert Schiller
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish. — Joshua Foer
I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day. — Ingrid Newkirk
Dozen of witness records prove that this is not a single false volley, but the deliberate destruction of the people. The Russian knew what they were shooting. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. — Fritz Kreisler
Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms. — Jeannette Walls
The only weapon I had was my dancing.
With that I fought like a general without an army.
If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle
it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets. — Maya Plisetskaya
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. — Warren Buffett
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. — Robert Keith Leavitt
Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed. — Paul Ekman
I wanna get rich enough in life that I can afford to release a dozen doves every time I walk into a room. You know people would be like, 'Did you see that guy come out of the bathroom? The one with doves, it was beautiful.' — Daniel Tosh
I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on. — Rowan Atkinson
As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles. — Jimmy Buffett
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws. — S. J. Perelman
I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened. — Mo Udall
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