One, two, three. Here is a collection of proverbs and quotes with numbers.
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A bird is three things: feathers, flight and song, and feathers are the least of these.
Marjorie Allen SeiffertA cat has 40 million hairs: 5 million on its back, 10 million on its belly and 25 million on your couch.
Midas DekkersA cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins.
A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas JeffersonA fool at forty is a fool forever.
If a person hasn't matured by the age of 40, they never will.A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.
Sarah ParcakA stitch in time saves nine.
Try to solve problems in their early stages, otherwise they will get worse.An ant is over six feet tall when measured by its own foot-rule.
As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
Mick JaggerAs the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture.
John McCarthyBetter three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
William ShakespeareBeware of facts that use the term "majority" — get a precise percentage.
Hans RoslingBlack holes are where God divided by zero.
Albert EinsteinCats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff ValdezCouples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Do not kill a single wasp; for then a hundred will come to its funeral.
Even a one-inch insect has a five tenths of a soul.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
Never give up. Be resilient.For every grape a hundred wasps.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George OrwellGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham LincolnGrow old along with me, two branches of one tree.
John LennonI don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.
Maisie WilliamsI got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
Mick JaggerI'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley WintersIf two ride a horse, one must ride behind.
When two people work together, one will be the leader and the other will be the follower.If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
(unknown author)If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
Don't try to do two things at the same time, because you may succeed in doing either of them properly.In fact in the world of infinity a part may be equal to the whole!
George GamowSource: One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
Is twice nothing more or less than three times nothing?
MinkukelIt is easier to watch over one hundred fleas than one young girl.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George OrwellSource: 1984
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together.
(unknown author)Source: Movie: Sleepless in Seattle
It's impossible to have zero defects.
Marianne LakeMagnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.
Dave BarryMarriage is a sack full of ninety-nine snakes and one eel.
Never believe that one number on its own can be meaningful.
Hans RoslingSource: Factfulness
Nine out of ten women love chocolate. The tenth is lying.
(unknown author)No doctor is better than three.
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than with twenty casks of vinegar.
One drink is just right,
two are too many,
three too few”.
two are too many,
three too few”.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half.' The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
John MajorOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert EinsteinResearch tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.
Sandra BoyntonSix hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston ChurchillThe four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
Dave Barry