Fish ought to swim thrice. [ Proverb ]

Measure thrice and cut once. [ Proverb ]

France is a meadow that cuts thrice a year. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down. [ William Shakespeare ]

Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Thrice I attempted to throw my arms round her neck there, and her ghost, thrice clutched in vain, eluded my grasp. [ Virgil ]

I'll give thrice so much land. To any well deserving friend; But in the way of bargain, mark me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. [ William Shakespeare ]

Thrice happy they, and more than thrice, whom an unbroken link binds together, and whom love, unimpaired by evil rancour, will not sunder before their last day. [ Horace ]

From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth; he has twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him: he hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]