“Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space”
Will Rogers
“I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry”
Randall Jarrell
“One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.”
Norman R. Augustine
“If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.”
“It costs ten times more to govern that it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.”
“I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.”
Wayne Rogers
“We're producing as many engineers and scientists as South Korea -- an economy about one-tenth the size of ours.”
David Huether