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A bird is three things: feathers, flight and song, and feathers are the least of these.
Marjorie Allen Seiffert

A cat has 40 million hairs: 5 million on its back, 10 million on its belly and 25 million on your couch.
Midas Dekkers

A 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 Jefferson

A 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 Parcak

A 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 Jagger

As the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture.
John McCarthy

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Beware of facts that use the term "majority" — get a precise percentage.
Hans Rosling

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Albert Einstein

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez

Couples 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 Orwell

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Grow old along with me, two branches of one tree.
John Lennon

I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.
Maisie Williams

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
Mick Jagger

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters

If 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 Gamow
Source: One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science

Is twice nothing more or less than three times nothing?
Minkukel

It 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 Orwell
Source: 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 Lake

Magnetism 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 Barry

Marriage is a sack full of ninety-nine snakes and one eel.

Never believe that one number on its own can be meaningful.
Hans Rosling
Source: 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”.

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 Major

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.
Sandra Boynton

Six 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 Churchill

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
Dave Barry


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