| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Three |
| | | By three things we learn men: love, play and wine. German. | 1 |
| One’s too few, and three’s too many. | 2 |
| Three things soon pass away: woman’s beauty, the rainbow, and the echo of the woods. German. | 3 |
| Three things trouble life: quarrels, love and wine. German. | 4 |
| To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not sleep, to serve well and not be advanced, are three things to die of. Italian. | 5 |
| What three know everybody knows. Spanish. | 6 |
| What three know will soon be known to thirty. German. | 7 | | |
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