Two ill meals make the third a glutton. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Two good meals make the third a glutton. [ Proverb ]
Two may keep counsel when the third's away. [ William Shakespeare ]
In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]
Death, so called, is a thing that makes men weep,
And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. [ Byron ]
Be bold! first gate;
Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold, second gate;
Be not too bold! third gate. [ Spenser, Faerie Queen, Book III, Inscription on the Gates of Busyrane ]
A third heir seldom enjoys what it dishonestly acquired. [ Juv ]
Where two faithful friends meet, God makes up the third. [ Proverb ]
Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it. [ Proverb ]
Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing. [ Proverb ]
A third salt; a neutral salt; the union of an acid and an alkali.
The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. [ Laboulaye ]
A third something, produced by the union or interaction of two opposites.
Two thirds of life are spent in hesitating, and the other third in repenting. [ E. Souvestre ]
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Of the three requisitions of genius, the first is soul, and the second, soul, and the third, soul. [ E. P. Whipple ]
The first tear of love that one causes to be shed is a diamond, the second a pearl, the third - a tear. [ A. Poincelot ]
A vine bears three grapes - the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. [ Anacharsis ]
The first degree of folly is to hold one's self wise, the second to profess it, the third to despise counsel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
High rank and discernment are two different things, and love for virtue and for virtuous people is a third thing. [ La Bruyère ]
One writer excels at a plan or a title-page; another works away at the body of the book; and a third is a dab hand at an index. [ Goldsmith ]
Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise. [ Zoroaster ]
The life of a woman can be divided into three epochs: in the first she dreams of love, in the second she experiences it, in the third she regrets it. [ Saint-Prosper ]
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. [ Confucius ]
Two orders of poets I admit, but no third; the creative (Shakespeare, Homer, Dante), and reflective or perceptive (Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson); and both these must be first-rate in their range. [ John Ruskin ]
What was your dream? It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said: On the third day, Socrates, thou shalt reach the coast of fertile Phthia. [ Plato ]
First, girls, don't smoke--that is, don't smoke to excess. I am seventy-three and a half years old, and have been smoking seventy-three of them. But I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Second, don't drink - that is, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry - I mean, to excess. [ Mark Twain, "Advice To Girls", 1909 ]
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings, - a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. [ Hannah More ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems. [ Coleridge ]