320 Proverbs about Three / Page 6
101. Measure three times and cut once.
102. No wonder lasts more than three days.
103. Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.
104. The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.
105. Three know it, all know it.
106. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
107. Three things drive a man out of doors: smoke, dropping water, and a shrew.
108. To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not sleep, to serve well and not be advanced, are three things to die of.
109. He who works by himself does the work of three.
110. He who meddles in others people's affairs will be left with two of three parts.
111. Three are powerful: the Pope, the king, and the man who has nothing.
112. One Englishman can beat three Frenchmen.
113. Three women and a goose make a market.
114. Fish and guests smell at three days old.
115. Fish and guests stink after three days.
116. From clogs to clogs is only three generations.
117. He that was born under a three-halfpenny planet shall never be worth twopence.
118. He who marries a widow with three children, marries four thieves.
119. He who would drive another over three dikes must climb over two himself.
120. Smoke, rain, and a scolding wife, are three bad things in a house.
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