Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married. ]
Oh thrice and four times happy. . . those who plant cabbages.
I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.
And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.
The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four
Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
I stupidly memorize my credit card and use it about thrice weekly for online shopping. The only reason I don't bankrupt myself is that I return about 75% of what I buy.
And thrice do I say to thee. . . bite me.
Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.
O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!
