Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The entire spring and summer line from Marc Jacobs was stolen on the way to the fashion show in Paris. The thief… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“This was thieves’ cant. Mosca was a lover of words, and she had a sneaking liking for the grimy panache of cant,… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“Your Majesty?” Alric looked up at the thief with a scowl. “I just want to say for the record that as far… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ...… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.” — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints. — PLO Lumumba Copy Share Image
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. — Fulton Oursler Copy Share Image
Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.” — A.E.H. Veenman Copy Share Image
If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole… — Aesop Copy Share Image
The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
