Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. — Theodore Roosevelt
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. — Anatole France
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. — John Lennon
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. — T. E. Lawrence
Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine! — Colin Mochrie
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. — Henry A Kissinger
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. — Edgar Allan Poe
Well we got nine and you can't score more than that — Bobby Robson
We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us. — Ruud Gullit
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. — Tug McGraw
Short Nine Tenths Quotes
Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion. — Shiv Khera
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. — Jon Bon Jovi
Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion. — Tina Fey
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. — Neil Gaiman
Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart. — Cathy Ferguson
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. — Irving Berlin
Nine Tenths Image Quotes
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Nine Ten Quotes
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy. — Fulton J. Sheen
When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. — Martin Garrix
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. — James A. Garfield
I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten. — Sam Elliott
Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition. — Edwin Starr
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. — Sir John Lubbock
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Nine or ten, I like playing both. I like to score goals, and I feel in both positions I can score goals. — Harry Kane
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. — C. S. Lewis
I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal!' My mind was so warped by the idea of fame. — Bo Burnham
A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand. — Christopher Columbus
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 the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. — Horace Walpole
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard
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 appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be. — Bertrand Russell
Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories — H. L. Mencken
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder. — Horace Greeley
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. — Thomas Huxley
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. — Joseph Epstein
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. — Haruki Murakami
Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings. — George S. Clason
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics. — Edgar Allan Poe
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. — Sayings
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
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water. — Thornton Wilder
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. — Benjamin Disraeli
Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude. — Joseph Kittinger
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. — Thomas Carlyle
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most. — Jasper Fforde
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
Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun. — Francine Pascal
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties. — Robert Graves
I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le. — Winston Churchill
During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there. — George Orwell
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it!] — Francis Marion Crawford
The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience. — Herschel Hobbs
The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. — H. L. Mencken
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness. — Aldo Leopold
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right. — Pat Summitt
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love. — C. S. Lewis
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. — Francis Crawford
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing. — Benjamin Disraeli
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
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. — Billy Wilder
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