“Could I come near your beauty with my nails I’d set my ten commandments in your face. William Shakespeare
“He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers, Leastways if you reckon two thumbs; Long ago he was one of the singers, But now he is one of the dumbs. Edward Lear
“The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone.Lucretius