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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. -- Theodore Roosevelt
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Marion Crawford
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. -- John Lennon
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. -- Horace Walpole
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. -- C. S. Lewis
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. -- Mary Lyon
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
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
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
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way. -- Tom Cruise
The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy. -- Warren Spector
The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam! -- Vikram Seth
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. -- Dale Dauten
Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting. -- Zadie Smith
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. -- Anatole France
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. -- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Nine-tenths of human law is about possession. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear. -- John French Sloan
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup. -- Maggie Shipstead
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. -- Thomas Carlyle
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right. -- Pat Summitt
In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time. -- Andrew Marr
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. -- Marcel Proust
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time. -- Dale Dauten
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action -- Chester Barnard
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. -- William Graham Sumner
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better. -- Bertrand Russell
The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion. -- John Maynard Keynes
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. -- Joseph Epstein
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
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
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art â?? not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. -- Peter S. Beagle
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
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
The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. -- H. L. Mencken
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet. -- Henry James
The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense. -- H. L. Mencken
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
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 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
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

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