# Things that come in sets of seven **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028 "2003-08-18T19:53:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/1 "2003-08-18T19:53:30Z")
I’m installing new arrays at the office and I’ve now got seven of them. I’m looking for an original, but still easy-to-remember set of names for them. So far, the front-leader is the slightly trite Seven Dwarf’s names. Other things that come in sevens we’ve come up with are the seven days of the week, beautitudes & deadly sins. What else? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_Two_Brains)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/2 "2003-08-18T20:03:08Z")
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers House of the Seven Gables Seventh Voyage of Sinbad ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/3 "2003-08-18T20:07:57Z")
Wonders of the Ancient World ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_Two_Brains)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/4 "2003-08-18T20:09:42Z")
QUOTATION: The seven deadly sins… Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. Undershaft, in Major Barbara, act 3. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/5 "2003-08-18T20:12:31Z")
The Seven Seas ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_Two_Brains)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/6 "2003-08-18T20:13:46Z")
QUOTATION: The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. ATTRIBUTION: Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 115, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951). Also Seven continents, seven seas, seven wonders ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/7 "2003-08-18T20:14:09Z")
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Seven Wonders of the [Ancient] World ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_Two_Brains)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/8 "2003-08-18T20:18:41Z")
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/9 "2003-08-18T20:22:50Z")
[Sutherland sisters](http://www.lockportcave.com/sisters.html). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/10 "2003-08-18T20:24:07Z")
There were 7 castaways on Gilligan’s Island. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/11 "2003-08-18T20:25:08Z")
My father’s sisters: Dolores (Dolly), Theresa (Terry), Cynthia (Cyndy), Nancy (Nancy), Barbara (Barb), Debra (Debbie), and Ann (Katy). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_Two_Brains)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/12 "2003-08-18T20:26:52Z")
(you could look these up: ) Seven against Thebes seven Kings of Tara Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. Seven stars (Astron.), the Pleiades. The ancients reckoned seven sciences, namely, grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; – the first three being included in the Trivium, the remaining four in the Quadrivium. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/13 "2003-08-18T20:31:22Z")
Dang… I wanna nother brain! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_Two_Brains)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/14 "2003-08-18T20:39:16Z")
Seven simple machines (Lever, Inclined Plane, Wheel and Axle, Screw, Wedge, Pulley, and one I forget) seven tribes seven nations ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_Two\_Brains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_Two_Brains)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/15 "2003-08-18T20:44:38Z")
## Seven Sacraments BAPTISM … Birth: the necessary beginning of life CONFESSION … Medicine: healing in time of sickness COMMUNION … Food: regular nourishment needed to sustain life CONFIRMATION … Maturity: the age of knowledge and responsibility HOLY ORDERS … Relationship: two joined together for life MARRIAGE … Relationship: God and man joined together for life EXTREME UNCTION … Crisis/Death: special healing at a critical time ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/16 "2003-08-18T20:47:11Z")
Trailer-park teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/17 "2003-08-18T20:54:22Z")
Seven hills of Rome Seven hills of Lisbon “Seven”, the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Trygve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@Trygve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trygve)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/18 "2003-08-18T21:03:29Z")
Seven Stans: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/19 "2003-08-18T21:13:55Z")
A Seven Nation Army? ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/20 "2003-08-18T22:54:29Z")
HERE I AM! _arms up in the air_ Huh? Oh. this thread is about something else. _hangs head_ _leaves_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028.md?page=2)