Nine-Tenths Quotes

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. John Lennon

Problem Law Nine-Tenths Possession

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. Horace Walpole

You People Society Other Nine-Tenths Would Tenth Were Want Created

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. Kin Hubbard

Nature Conversation Change People Weather Nine-Tenths Once Knock While Start

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. Francis Marion Crawford

Defeat Nine-Tenths Itself Expect

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. Benjamin Disraeli

Clever Nine-Tenths Books Nonsense Existing

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam! Vikram Seth

You Mind Pure Other Nine-Tenths Visible Trick Seem Only Never Part Like Know Make Being Iceberg Act Displaying Novelist

In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed. John Boyle O'Reilly

Will Stage Predict Nine Nine-Tenths Shall Arrived Question Ireland Irish Legislative Cursed Which Century Then England Union