Thieves Quotes · Page 10

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

— Rumi

When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]

— George Herbert

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.”

— James Carlos Blake

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

— Aristotle

I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.

— Eddie Vedder

“Solid objects will not keep anyone safe in this conflict.”

— Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

— Buddy Rich

it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result…

— Erik Naggum

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“But he's nice," Barby objected. Tom Bishop smiled without humor. "Most pleasant and interesting man I ever knew was a burglar.”

— John Blaine

One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

— Sterling W Sill

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the…

— Rod Parsley

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man…

— George W. Plunkitt

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

— Jim Rohn

Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of…

— Clive Barker

“By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth…

— Henry David Thoreau

The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely…

— Terry Pratchett

Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be…

— Bashar al-Assad

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people,…

— Paul Theroux

Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do…

— Laozi

While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born.…

— Anonymous

I'm always hearing warnings about keeping your belongings close to you [in Ho Chi Minh City] as thieves who ride motorbikes are…

— Doug Rice

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we…

— Toni Morrison

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make…

— William Shakespeare

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:…

— Peter S. Beagle

On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair…

— Muhammad Ali

“Many of these bandits had enlisted under illegal names and were not model soldiers to begin with, but regardless of the circumstances,…

— Charles River Editors

One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and…

— Dan Ariely

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take…

— John B. Watson

O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

— William Shakespeare

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

— Ovid

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

— Gertrude Atherton

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

— Eamon de Valera

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

— Elizabeth Lesser

I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift, I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef

— Diamond D

On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King...the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!

— John Mark McMillan