(10 quotes found)
“Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust”
Josh Billings
“Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain.”
John Dryden
“Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.”
Bible
“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.”
William Shakespeare
“`The game is done! I've won, I've won!' / Quoth she, and whistles thrice.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be”
John Donne
“And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.”
“"Fool me once; fool me twice; but shame on me if you fool me thrice." - Nabil N. Jamal”
Nabil N. Jamal
“For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.”
“Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.”
Edmund Waller