Double Ten Day

Famous quotes containing the words double, ten and/or day:

    “...the shiny-cheeked merchant bankers from London with eighties striped blue ties and white collars and double-barreled names and double chins and double-breasted suits, who said “ears” when they meant “yes” and “hice” when they meant “house” and “school” when they meant “Eton”...”
    —John le Carré (b. 1931)

    “Ten for the Ten Commandments

    Eleven for the ‘leven that went to heaven

    Twelve for the twelve Apostles”
    —Unknown. Carol of the Numbers (l. 30–32)

    “General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)