My life closed twice before its close
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
You can't make souffle rise twice.
When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.
As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'. . . It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.
Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice.
I'll try anything once, most things twice.
Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.
Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly.