Famous Proverbs
320 Proverbs about Three / Page 8
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Fish and guests stink after three days.72.
From clogs to clogs is only three generations.73.
He that was born under a three-halfpenny planet shall never be worth twopence.74.
He who marries a widow with three children, marries four thieves.75.
He who would drive another over three dikes must climb over two himself.76.
Smoke, rain, and a scolding wife, are three bad things in a house.77.
There are three bad neighbours: great rivers, great lords, and great roads.78.
There are three things from which no good can be got without a beating: a walnut-tree, a donkey, and a shrew.79.
A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a hundred tailors are three hundred thieves.80.
An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house.