Three Quotes

From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

I'm lucky to be alive. It took three years of therapy to recover but I did it.

There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.

A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business.

The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.

I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.

Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

Three English bulldogs count for one kid.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

Every man at three years old is half his height

A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.

Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it.

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

The most memorably photos are layered, in good light, and have something really ineresting going on in them. If you can get all three elements into a single frame, now you're talking.

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.