Ten Quotes

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving

Love, Power, Deep

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

Through, Times, Congress

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides

Friend, Worth, Relatives

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

God, Society, Live

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

Respect, Law, Destroy

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

End, Later, Cincinnati

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

Truth, Art, Before

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

Angry, Before, Speak

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde

Long, Woman, Her

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

Year, Teach, Trees

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher

Change, Mind, Rarely

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

Down, Brother, Figure

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Book, Others, Whole

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw

Work, Young, Times

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp

Romantic, Times, Seen

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw

Science, Problem, Creating

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

Men, Home, Waiting

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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Strength, Heart, Pure

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Voltaire

God, Men, Knowledge

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Mind, Knows

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard

Morning, Care, Until

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

Long, Days, Slept

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

Book, Else, Everyone

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury

Live, Eyes, Dream

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

Work, Two, Four

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

Truth, Today, Past

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs

Age, Old, Older

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

Change, Yourself, Two

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
Steve Jobs

Power, Today, Revolution

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