“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)
“While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.”
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Italian author and poet 1313–1375Related quotes
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