“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”
al'Lan Mandragoran
Variant: There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: "Better to have one woman on your side than ten men."
Source: The Great Hunt (15 November 1990)
“I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did youto the King?”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Ground Book
Context: To master the virtue of the long sword is to govern the world and oneself, thus the long sword is the basis of strategy. The principle is "strategy by means of the long sword". If he attains the virtue of the long sword, one man can beat ten men. Just as one man can beat ten, so a hundred men can beat a thousand, and a thousand men can beat ten thousand. In my strategy, one man is the same as ten thousand, so this strategy is the complete warrior's craft.
The Way of the warrior does not include other Ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly you will see it in everything. Men must polish their particular Way.
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”
The Apple Cart (1928), Act I
1920s
“Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.”
As quoted in Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 73
Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza
