Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.

- Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

- Henry David Thoreau

THREE BASIC TRUTHSThree things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless.Three things are needed For humanity to co-exist:Truth, peace and basic needs.Everything else -Is irrelevant.

- Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

- Erin Gray

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

- Ian Botham

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

- Dick Armey

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

- Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

I've never been in the top three of Sports Personality. And I won't be in the top three again. You have just got to accept what it is.

- Mo Farah

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.

- Mo Ibrahim

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

- David Attenborough