Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people—the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done. Carlyle.
Two heads are better than one, or why do folks marry? Pr.
Two in distress make sorrow less. Pr.
Two is company, but three is none. Pr. 40
Two kitchen fires burn not on one hearth. Pr.
Two may keep counsel, putting one away. Pr.
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. Emerson.
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, / One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. Lowell.
Two men I honour, and no third. First, the 45 toilworn craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's.... A second man I honour, and still more highly—him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of life.... These two in all their degrees I honour; all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth. Carlyle.
Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time. Sterne.