“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody’s hand and squeeze it, while there’s time.”
“Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.”
“There’s nothing nine-tenths about me as a person. I’m a 100% kind of guy, at least half the time. ”
“That's the way it is: life includes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.”
“I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.”
“Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.”