A Quote by George Bancroft

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

George Bancroft

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George Bancroft
American - Historian
October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891

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

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

Colin Mochrie

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

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.

Rick Moody

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

Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there.

Sturgill Simpson

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Terry Pratchett

Done to death by slanderous tongue

William Shakespeare

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

Brian Robertson

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

Patricia C. Wrede

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

Homer

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.