Three Quotes

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Memories shared serve each one differently.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.

What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.

Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.

I remember the very first suit I bought. It was a three-piece denim suit with bell-bottoms.

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Daily, I examine myself in three areas. Have I done my best when doing things for others? Have I been trustworthy in my dealings with my friends? Have I revised the lessons I have been taught?

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.