Definition of twice

"twice" in the adverb sense

1. twice

two times

"I called her twice"

2. doubly, double, twice

to double the degree

"she was doubly rewarded"

"his eyes were double bright"

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Quotations for twice

Measure twice, cut once. [ Proverb ]

Auld folk are twice bairns. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Old men are twice children. [ Proverb ]

A penny spared is twice got. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An old man is twice a child. [ Shakespeare ]

Once a man and twice a child. [ Proverb ]

On a good bargain think twice. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If things were to be done twice.
All would be wise. [ Proverb ]

He gives twice who gives quickly. [ Syrus ]

A fault denied is twice committed. [ French Proverb ]

He that pays last never pays twice. [ Proverb ]

Better ask twice than go wrong once. [ German Proverb ]

No man bathes twice in the same river. [ Heraclitus ]

Once taken is better than twice given. [ Proverb ]

Do it well, so you do not do it twice. [ Proverb ]

That which is well done is twice done. [ Proverb ]

To review one's store is to mow twice. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A tale twice told, is cabbage twice sod. [ Proverb ]

He lives twice who can at once employ
The present well and e'en the past enjoy. [ Pope ]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. [ Alan Turing ]

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. [ Pope ]

A fox is not caught twice in the same trap. [ French Proverb ]

The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years. [ Pope ]

Not once or twice in our rough island story,
The path of duty was the way to glory. [ Tennyson ]

Life's a reckoning we cannot make twice over. [ George Eliot ]

It ought to be a good tale that is twice told. [ Proverb ]

He that dines and leaves lays the cloth twice. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. [ Proverb ]

I take thy hand, this hand,
As soft as dove's down, and as white as it;
Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fanned snow.
That's bolted by the northern blast twice o'er. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men of business must not break their word twice. [ Proverb ]

To die at the command of another is to die twice. [ Syrus ]

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. [ Porteus ]

What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? [ William Shakespeare ]

He that goes the contrary way must go it over twice. [ Proverb ]

That man lives twice that lives the first life well. [ Herrick ]

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice his worth. [ Gracian ]

Even an ass will not fall twice in the same quick-sand. [ Proverb ]

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons or devices. [ Publius Syrus ]

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door. [ Chamfort ]

It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice. [ Proverb ]

It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. [ Proverb ]

The refusal of praise is only the wish to be praised twice. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He complains wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwreck. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No sweetness in a cabbage twice boiled, or in a tale twice told. [ Proverb ]

Lay your hand upon your halfpenny twice before you part with it. [ Proverb ]

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. [ Cicero ]

They complain wrongfully of Neptune, that twice suffered shipwreck. [ Proverb ]

I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too much food. [ Sydney Smith ]

You will find that most books worth reading once are worth reading twice. [ John Morley ]

He that stumbles twice at the same stone deserves to have his shins broke. [ Proverb ]

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice. [ Voltaire ]

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life. [ Martial ]

Once true, still more twice true, in the life of the spirit is always true. [ Ed ]

He that is cheated twice by the same man, is an accomplice with the cheater. [ Proverb ]

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. [ William Shakespeare ]

He conquers twice who, at the moment of victory, conquers (i.e. restrains) himself. [ Publius Syrus ]

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. [ Burgh ]

Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume. [ N. P. Willis ]

Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time. [ Sterne ]

There is no such thing as a white lie; a lie is as black as a coal-pit, and twice as foul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Who listens once will listen twice; her heart be sure is not of ice, and one refusal no rebuff. [ Byron ]

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires. [ Franklin ]

Often turn the stile (correct with care) if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [ Horace ]

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. [ Colton ]

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death. [ Voltaire ]

All cares appear twice as large as they really are, owing to their emptiness and darkness; and so is it with the grave. [ Richter ]

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over doth endure the pains of evil destiny. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

I do not number my borrowings; I weigh them, and had I designed to raise their value by their number, I had made them twice as many. [ Montaigne ]

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice. [ Martial ]

When a woman pronounces the name of a man but twice a day, there may be some doubt as to the nature of her sentiments; but three times! [ Balzac ]

I love college football. It's the only time of year you can walk down the street with a girl in one arm and a blanket in the other, and nobody thinks twice about it. [ Duffy Daugherty ]

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 ]

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it. [ Hazlitt ]

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations. It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]

I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

twice in Scrabble®

The word twice is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters twice:

TWICE
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word twice

TWICE
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The 141 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In twice

TWICE
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twice in Words With Friends™

The word twice is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters twice:

TWICE
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TWICE
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word twice

TWICE
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The 159 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In twice

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Words within the letters of twice

2 letter words in twice (2 words)

3 letter words in twice (5 words)

4 letter words in twice (1 word)

5 letter words in twice (1 word)

twice + 1 blank (1 word)

twice + 2 blanks (6 words)

Words containing the sequence twice

Words that start with twice (2 words)

Words with twice in them (1 word)

Words that end with twice (1 word)

Word Growth involving twice

Shorter words in twice

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Longer words containing twice

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