In Threes Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Say bad things come in threes, but I don't think that's true. I think bad things keep right on coming.

Hugh Howey

#3. 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

#4. Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. 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

#6. Okay you guys, pair up in threes!

Yogi Berra

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Bad things come in threes - but then they stop. And start all over again.

Hugh Howey

#10. 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

#11. The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Mencius

#12. 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

#13. Why don't you pair'em up in threes?

Yogi Berra

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. they say bad things come in threes, so we got our quota for a while ain't we.

Tom Franklin

#19. Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

Ninette De Valois

#20. If deaths came in threes . . . he thought numbly. Who was going to be the third one?

J.R. Ward

#21. Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

Yogi Berra

#22. 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

#23. Complication comes in threes: love triangles, third wheels, the trinity.

Alexandra Oliva

#24. 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

#25. Trouble didn't just come in threes: it gathered passengers as it went, and crashed nastily into bystanders.

C.J. Cherryh

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.

Sam Bradford

#30. purposefully in twos and threes into the streets:

Anthony Doerr

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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