Quotes of Respite - somelinesforyou

“ The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting. ”

- Gertrude Stein

“ Ten Million Dollar Baby. ”

- Clint Eastwood

“ If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. ”

- Mark Twain

“ But if it would have been a vacation, we wouldn't have made it. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments — we'd have the Ten Suggestions. ”

- Malcolm Bradbury

“ Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing. ”

- Unknown

“ The time to begin most things is ten years ago. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before… it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality. ”

- Pat Robertson

“ There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible. ”

- Elizabeth I

“ It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths. ”

- Alexander Pushkin

“ If you have to have a policy manual, publish the Ten Commandments. ”

- Robert Townsend

“ To me — old age is always ten years older than I am. ”

- Andre B. Buruch

“ Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor. ”

- Horace

“ I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening. ”

- Bill Hybels

“ I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long. ”

- Mitch Hedberg

“ Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. ”

- Lee Trevino

“ To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. ”

- John Burroughs

“ Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate. ”

- Louis XIV

“ Ten days that shook the world. ”

- John Reed

“ And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. ”

- Bible

“ And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. ”

- Bible

“ If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will. ”

- Paul Harvey

“ Garlic is as good as ten mothers. ”

- Unknown
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