A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

third see also while TWO dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.
Thomas see on SAINT Thomas the Divine kill all turkeys, geese, and swine.
thorn see beware of an OAK, it draws the stroke; he who PLANTS thorns should not expect to gather roses; no ROSE without a thorn; do not grieve that ROSE-TREES have thorns...
THOUGHT is free

• 
  с 1390 GOWER Confessio Amantis V. 4485 I have herd seid that thoght is fre. 1601 SHAKESPEARE Twelfth Night I. iii. 64 Fair lady, do you think you have fools in hand?— Now, sir, thought is free. 1874 G. MACDONALD Malcolm II. xvii. ‘How do you come to think of such things?’ ‘Thought’s free, my lord.’ ■ opinions
  

thought see also FIRST thoughts are best; SECOND thoughts are best; the WISH is father to the thought.
thousand see one PICTURE is worth ten thousand words.
THREATENED men live long
Cf. early 14th-cent. Fr. le[s] menaciez encore vivent, threatened men live long.

• 
  1534 LADY E. WHEATHELL in M. St. C. Byrne Lisle Letters II. ii. Ther es a nolde sayeng thretend men lyue long. c 1555 in H. L. Collman Ballads of Elizabethan Period (1912) 69 It is a true prouerbe: the threatned man lyues long. 1607 T. HEYWOOD Fair Maid of Exchange II. 68 Threatened men live long. 1655 T. FULLER Church Hist. Britain VIII. iii. Gardiner.. vowed.. to stop the sending of all supplies unto them. .. But threatned folke live long. 1865 G. W. THORNBURY Haunted London ii. Temple Bar was doomed to destruction by the City as early as 1790. .. ‘Threatened men live long.’.. Temple Bar still stands. 1930 A. CHRISTIE Murder at Vicarage iv. Archer.. is vowing vengeance against me, I hear. Impudent scoundrel. Threatened men live long, as the saying goes. 1980 L. EGAN Hunters & Hunted i. The threat was an old one; and, the proverb ran, threatened men live long. "mortality; peril