Top 43 Come In Threes Quotes
#1. They say bad things come in threes, but I don't think that's true. I think bad things keep right on coming. They don't stop. They'll never stop. It's just too depressing to keep counting, so we start over after the third bad thing.
Hugh Howey
#2. they say bad things come in threes, so we got our quota for a while ain't we.
Tom Franklin
#3. Say bad things come in threes, but I don't think that's true. I think bad things keep right on coming.
Hugh Howey
#4. Which statements are true according to the passage?
A) Science, governments, and your doctor should be trusted.
B) 'Comforting her deep into the night' is a euphemism for sneaking candy.
C) The ugliest phrase used in this passage is 'female.'
D) Bad things really do come in threes.
Tupelo Hassman
#5. Bad things come in threes - but then they stop. And start all over again.
Hugh Howey
#6. Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you've done something wrong but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.
Sarah Kay
#7. The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
Mencius
#8. One little girl.
Two soulmates.
And three mended hearts.
I'm a believer now. I can see it with my own eyes.
Everything should come in threes.
J.A. Huss
#9. Trouble didn't just come in threes: it gathered passengers as it went, and crashed nastily into bystanders.
C.J. Cherryh
#10. Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of threes or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refugee in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.
Max Porter
#11. I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in threes. He has three apples left, I guess I can't have one. I wouldn't want to screw up his practice routine.
Mitch Hedberg
#12. The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.
Milan Kundera
#13. On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.
Sam Bradford
#14. Why don't you pair'em up in threes?
Yogi Berra
#15. And on far-off Earth, Dr. Carlisle Perera had as yet told no one how he had wakened from a restless sleep with the message from his subconscious still echoing in his brain: The Ramans do everything in threes.
Arthur C. Clarke
#16. I don't like defensive shots-you can only get threes
W. G. Grace
#17. There they stood, in twos and threes and fours, in their Cub Scout uniforms and with their Cub Scout faces, totally unprepared, as is the way with American he-men, for anything that could not be settled with a club or a fist or a gun.
James Baldwin
#18. I mean, everything beats me, even twos and threes.
Frank Portman
#19. 'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.
Chris Owen
#20. The number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#21. Men are like busses. I mean, you wait for ages and ages, and when one does finally come along you can't get on. And that bit about them coming in threes, well, that's just a myth.
Eleanor Prescott
#22. Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?" ...
"Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223" ...
"And pray, why would this number interest us?"
"It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.
Abraham Verghese
#24. People clustered in twos or threes or fours, I have come to believe, both constitute creatures in and of themselves and, together as tandems or triunes or packs, form another sort of myriad-minded creature whose actions are far from predictable.
Brian Evenson
#25. RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOW
BEWARE OF DOG
ANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXES
DO NOT STEAL QUEENS
A GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINS
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATION
EVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATER
WHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP
Catherynne M Valente
#27. Complication comes in threes: love triangles, third wheels, the trinity.
Alexandra Oliva
#28. purposefully in twos and threes into the streets:
Anthony Doerr
#29. These same oxygen atoms, normally found in pairs (O2), also combined in threes to form ozone (O3) in the upper atmosphere, which serves as a shield that protects Earth's surface from most of the Sun's molecule-hostile ultraviolet photons.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#30. In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself.
Michelle Moran
#31. And Cindi came up with a new trick to use if she was having trouble falling asleep: "Counting backward from 300 by threes - it works like magic and you never get below 250." On the few occasions when I feel too wired to sleep, my panacea is a hot bath with my favorite bath salts.
Arianna Huffington
#33. If deaths came in threes . . . he thought numbly. Who was going to be the third one?
J.R. Ward
#35. These things happen in threes,' said Milly in her way of uttering bits of folk-wisdom; she was spooning tea into the heated teapot. She always mixed tea with maxims.
Muriel Spark
#36. 48 Now we understand, also, that God is perfected in threes. Now, God is "perfected" in three. "Grace" is five. Seven is "completion," like the world.
William Branham
#37. The Central Indian Trifakirs, though something of a pest, were quite harmless. They always appeared in threes, of course, and made a practice of handing out muddle-headed philosophical tracts.
Walter Moers
#38. Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#39. And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.
David Mitchell
#40. The Golds dance in pairs, Obsidians in threes, Grays in dozens," he told me. "We dance alone, because only alone do Helldivers drill. Only alone can a boy become a man.
Pierce Brown
#41. I think everything in life comes in threes: heartbreak and all that. You've got to do the full round in order to learn.
Lykke Li
#42. I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
Sam Bradford
#43. We cut a pack of cards called historical context- our generation, Sixsmith, cut tens, jacks and queens. Adrian's cut threes, fours, and fives. That's all.
David Mitchell
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