Ten men, ten minds…
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- A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- A good tree can lodge ten thousand birds.~ Myanmar Proverb
- A man’s best friends are his ten fingers.~ Robert Collyer
- A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.~ Julius Robert Oppenheimer
- Among ten matchmakers only nine will lie.~ Chinese Proverb
- A picture is worth ten thousand words.~ Chinese Proverb
- A single arrow is easily broken; a quiver of ten is not.~ Japanese Proverb
- As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.~ Oscar Wilde
- A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine.~ Iranian Proverb
- Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.~ Azerbaijani Proverb
- Be pleasant every morning until ten o’clock. The rest of the day will take care of itself.~ Col. William C. Hunter
- Better once in heaven than ten times at the gate.~ Dutch Proverb
- Better one day a man than ten days a woman.~ Kurdish Proverb
- Better ruined ten times than dead once.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Better ten people hurt than one dead.~ French Proverb
- Better ten times ill than one time dead.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.~ Joseph Addison
- Better to write down something one time than to read something ten times.~ Japanese Proverb
- Courage is ten, nine is the ability to escape.~ Azerbaijani Proverb
- Don’t trust your wife until she has borne you ten sons.~ Chinese Proverb
- Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.~ Japanese Proverb
- Even light takes a decade to travel ten light-years.~ Traditional Proverb
- For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.~ Laurence Sterne
- Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten! ~ Arabian Proverb
- Garlic is as good as ten mothers.~ Indian Proverb
- Give nine, save ten.~ Iranian Proverb
- Habit is ten times nature.~ Arthur Wellesley
- However poor the elephant, it will be worth more than ten frogs.~ Nigerien Proverb
- If one word does not succeed, ten thousand are of no avail.~ Chinese Proverb
- In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.~ George Bancroft
- It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.~ Grace Paley
- Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.~ Lou Holtz
- Money doesn’t always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.~ Author Unknown
- Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.~ James Humes
- My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.~ Author Unknown
- Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.~ Henry Kissinger
- One coward makes ten.~ German Proverb
- One day before you is better than ten years behind you.~ Russian Proverb
- One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.~ Jonathan Swift
- One eye witness is better than ten hear-Sayers.~ Titus Maccius Plautus
- One good argument is worth more than ten better ones.~ French Proverb
- One idiot can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.~ Mongolian Proverb
- One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.~ Euripides
- One minute of patience, ten years of peace.~ Greek Proverb
- One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.~ Persian Proverb
- One time “here you are” is better than ten times “heaven help you.” ~ German Proverb
- One volunteer is better than ten forced men.~ African Proverb
- Out of ten men there are nine wives.~ Turkish Proverb
- Personal contact will accomplish ten times what a cold letter will. Use that personal touch! ~ John J. Wilson
- Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.~ Korean Proverb
- Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.~ Korean Proverb
- Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.~ Chinese Proverb
- Tell a woman once she is beautiful and the devil will repeat it ten times.~ French Proverb
- Ten men, ten minds.~ Japanese Proverb
- Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.~ Euripides
- The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.~ Helen Hayes
- The loss of one night’s sleep is followed by ten days of inconvenience.~ Chinese Proverb
- To do good for ten years is not enough; do bad things for one day and it is too much.~ Chinese Proverb
- To me — old age is always ten years older than I am.~ Andre B. Buruch
- Virtuous for ten years is still not enough; evil for one day is too much already.~ Chinese Proverb
- We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.~ Aldous Huxley
- What a fool can spoil, ten wise men cannot repair.~ Yiddish Proverb
- What you give you get, ten times over.~ Beninese Proverb
- When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.~ Thomas Jefferson
- When ten thousand soldiers lie rotting, the general’s reputation is enhanced.~ Japanese Proverb
- Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?~ Barbara Streisand
- Wisdom consists of ten parts — nine parts of silence and one part with few words.~ Arabian Proverb
- Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.~ Congolese Proverb
- You don’t kill a gypsy by cutting him in ten pieces — you only make ten more gypsies.~ Gypsy Proverb
- You warm up something for ten days and it goes cold in one.~ Japanese Proverb
- Ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.~ Indian Proverb
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