three quotes

I bind into myself today The strong name of theTrinity, By invocation of the same TheThree in One and One inThree.

- Cecil Frances Alexander
  'St Patrick's Breastplate', his translation from the Irish.

Vim et virtutem et consequentias rerum inventarum notare juvat; quae non in aliis manifestius occurrunt, quam in illis tribus quae antiquis incognitae, et quarum primordia, licet recentia, obscura et ingloria sunt: Artis nimirum Imprimendi, PulverisTormentarii, et Acus Nauticae. Haec enim tria rerum faciem et statum in orbe terrarum mutaverunt. It is well to observe the force and virtue and consequence of discoveries, and these are to be seen nowhere more conspicuously than in those three which were unknown to the ancients, and of which the origin, though recent, is obscure and inglorious; namely, printing, gunpowder and the magnet [ie the compass]. For thesethreehave changedthewholefaceand stateof things throughout the world.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism129 (translated by  James Spedding).

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

- Princess of Wales Diana
  Of her marriage to Charles, Prince of  Wales, and his relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles.Television interview on BBC1's Panorama, 20 Nov.

My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followed false lights; and when their glimpse was gone My pride struck out new sparkles of her own† Good life be now my task: my doubts are done; (What more could fright my faith thanThree in One?)

-John Dryden
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.1, l.71^6.

Three little maids from school are we, Pert as a school-girl well can be Filled to the brim with girlish glee.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
   Trio forYum-yum, Peep-Bo and Pitti Sing, with Chorus of Girls, The Mikado, act1.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

- Ben Jonson
Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
Quoted in Marion Meade Dorothy Parker (1988).

When I was a young man, I wanted to be three things: I wanted to be the world's greatest horseman, the world's greatest economist, and the world's greatest lover. Unfortunately I never became the world's greatest horseman.

-Joseph Alois Schumpeter
s  Attributed, Harvard oral tradition.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Of Heaven, Keegan speaking. John Bull's Other Island, act 4.

Down for a new radio, to Ross Lake, and back up. Three days walking. Strange how unmoved this place leaves one; neither articulate or worshipful; rather the pressing need to look within and adjust the mechanism of perception.

- Gary Sherman Snyder
  Earth House Hold,'Lookout's Journal, Crater Shan 28 July'.

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.

- Gertrude Stein
Of Ernest Hemingway. Quoted in R Mellow Charmed Circle (1974), ch.16.

There's three things you can do in a baseball game^you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.

- Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).