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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man`s habits and then complain that he`s not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand
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Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase
John Balguy
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A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness
John Andrew Holmes
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A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness
John Andrew Holmes
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O` the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance
Hipponax the Satirist
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
Henry Louis Mencken
Subject: Cynicism QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger
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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Andy Dingley
Subject: Proverbs QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Ahmed Bedier
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Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes
Jan Masaryk
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My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live
Erica Jong
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
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To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs
Subject: Age QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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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 messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Shaw
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane Austen
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Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Shaw
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven`t and don`t.
George Shaw
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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten
Mark Twain
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I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i
Raymond Chandler
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I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i
Raymond Chandler
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides
Subject: War QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don`t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
Ernest Hemingway
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As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
Peter Greenaway
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Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is ten, or something.
Dennis Rodman
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[talking about his comeback and the comparison with John Travolta`s career turn in Pulp Fiction]:"If I get ten percent of John Travolta`s bounce, I will be thrilled."
Robert Forster
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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Ingrid Bergman
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Sebastian Stan
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He has disappointed me many times over the past ten years, with his performances in substandard movies. [About Robert De Niro]
Russell Crowe
