Third Quotes

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. (Confucius)
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. View quote
Helen Rowland
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. View quote
Truman Capote
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. View quote
Henry James
Alcohol is like love," he said. "The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. View quote
Raymond Chandler
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. View quote
Thomas Paine
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. View quote
James A. Michener
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields. View quote
Saddam Hussein
There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us... First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said? (Xi Jinping)
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. View quote
Gerald Durrell
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. View quote
George Herbert
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. View quote
André Weil
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise counsel. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. View quote
Bill Hicks
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology. View quote
Hannah Arendt
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. View quote
Quentin Crisp
To live alone one must be an animal or a god --says Aristotle. There is yet a third case one must be both --a philosopher. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained. View quote
Pliny the Elder
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame
There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. View quote
Cicero
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