“[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.”

“Moses : God has given us these fifteen— (after dropping one of the tablets) Oy! Ten — ten commandments!”

“Fay: The Ten Commandments. She was a great believer in some of them.”

“If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.”

“Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.”

“I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore.”

“Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.”

“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”

“But in reason if one man has no right to command all other men--the expedient of despotism--neither has he any right to command even one other man; nor yet have ten men, or a million, the right to command even one other man, for ten times nothing is nothing, and a million times nothing is nothing.”

“I'm going to command the whole shebang.”