A Quote by Edith Wharton

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton
American - Novelist
January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

A. C. Benson

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

Aaron Swartz

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Peter Lynch

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Colin Mochrie

The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!!

Ron Jeffries

Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.

Sean Stephenson

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

Jack Canfield

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

Terry Pratchett

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

Patricia C. Wrede

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

George Bancroft

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.

Brian Robertson

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.