“While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.”
“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”
“I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?”
“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.”
“...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.”
“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”