Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge

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

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Josh Billings

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
Jim Carrey

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. Mencken

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H. L. Mencken

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.
Lee Trevino

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
Lee Trevino

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas Sowell

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
William Bernbach

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.
Mike Myers

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
Gore Vidal