“Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”

“Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?”“Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.”“I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”

“Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.”

“Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.”

“Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!”

“For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.”