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 enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Jonathan Swift

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

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
Jerry Garcia

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane Austen

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
George Burns

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron

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

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.
Bill Maher

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

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

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

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

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
Paul Harvey

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Lewis Carroll

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
Spike Milligan

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge