A stitch in time saves nine. [ Proverb ]

Then take me on your knee, mother;
And listen, mother of mine.
A hundred fairies danced last night.
And the harpers they were nine. [ Mary Howitt ]

You will get the cat with nine tails. [ Proverb ]

You will bring a noble to nine-pence. [ Proverb ]

'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine;
And, after one hour more, 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot. [ William Shakespeare ]

Seven may be company, but nine are confusion. [ Proverb ]

Grantham gruel, nine grats in a gallon of water. [ Proverb ]

A cat has nine lives, and a woman has nine cats' lives. [ Proverb ]

That sort of tympani which requires nine months for cure. [ Proverb ]

As wise as Waltham's calf, that ran nine miles to suck a bull. [ Proverb ]

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. [ Proverb ]

In nine cases out of ten, the evil tongue belongs to a disappointed man. [ Bancroft ]

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. [ Greek Anthology ]

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. [ Horace ]

It has been the providence of nature to give this creature nine lives Instead of one. [ Pilpay ]

A coquette is a woman who places her honor in a lottery: ninety-nine chances to one that she will lose it.

The whole body of the pure mathematics is absolutely useless to ninety-nine out of every hundred who study them. [ T. S. Grimke ]

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology. [ Holmes ]

The same conditions should be made in marriage that are made in the case of houses that one rents for a term of three, six, or nine years, with the privilege of becoming the purchaser if the house suits. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]

Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]