320 Proverbs about Three / Page 8
141. A guest and a fish stink in three days.
142. A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers, are three hundred thieves.
143. A secret between two is God's secret, a secret between three is everybody's.
144. If one, two, three say you are an ass, put on a tail.
145. If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
146. Like Banbury tinkers that in mending one hole make three.
147. One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few.
148. Three daughters and their mother, four devils for the father.
149. Three men helping one another will do as much as six men singly.
150. Three Spaniards, four opinions.
151. Three strikes and you are out.
152. Three things are not to be trusted; a cow's horn, a dog's tooth, and a horse's hoof.
153. Three things kill a man: a scorching son, suppers, and cares.
154. Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small.
155. Three who held each other are as good as six.
156. Two boys are half a boy, and three boys are no boy at all.
157. What three know, everybody knows.
158. Three removals are as bad as a fire.
159. Three brothers, three castles.
160. A lawyer needs three bags: one full of papers, one full of money, and one full of patience.
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