“A Turkish proverb says the one who speaks truth would be expelled from nine villages. This is true; but there always exist the tenth which embraces the truth! The tenth is the answer of the highness to the lowness!”
“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.”
“Wizard's Tenth RuleWillfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.”
“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.”
“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.”