If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Zig Ziglar

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
Ronald Reagan

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

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

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin Franklin

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Confucius

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
Mitch Hedberg

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Aristotle

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou Holtz

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
Will Rogers

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West