Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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.
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.