Three Quotes

• There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.75, Booklassic

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• Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.

  Robert Montgomery

  Ocean, Air, Earth

  Robert Montgomery (1832). “Messiah”

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• Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

  Joan Collins

  Guilt, Pleasure, Quarters

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• The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

  Mary Oliver

  Spiritual, Poetry, Curiosity

  Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt

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• Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

  Epicurus

  Justice, Fortitude, Virtue

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• There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

  Red Skelton

  Memories, Humorous, Loss

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• Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Wow, Essentials

  Anne Lamott (2014). “Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace”, p.1, Penguin

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• I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

  Rita Rudner

  Hours, Miles, Worst

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• To make three guineas do the work of five.

  Robert Burns

  Economy, Guinea, Five

  Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham (1834). “The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life”, p.174

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• I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

  Clemence Poesy

  Week

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• Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

  Marge Piercy

  Love, Life, Empathy

  Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.685, Open Road Media

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• I'm probably one of my three biggest fans on the planet.

  Eric Roberts

  Fans, Planets, Biggest Fan

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Darkness, Deeds, Paradise

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• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

  William Faulkner

  Imagination, Source, Observation

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• Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Your Side, Understanding, Sides

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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Rocks, White, Silence

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.306

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• If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon.

  Betty White

  Blessing, Two, Unusual

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

  Plato

  Plato, Desire, Flow

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• The whole world is about three drinks behind.

  Humphrey Bogart

  World, Drink, Behinds

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• There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

  Denis Diderot

  Knowledge, Mean, Reflection

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Love, Inspirational, Work

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.

  Camillus de Lellis

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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  There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Witty, Truth

  Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in his 'Autobiography' (1924) vol. 1, p. 246

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