Burglars Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the… — Elias Canetti
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to… — Charles R. Swindoll
Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society. — Dan Quayle
Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than… — L. Neil Smith
They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if… — Sally Stanford
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of… — Mark Twain
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door. — Mike Gorman
Something tells me that the first mousetrap wasn't designed to catch mice at all, but to protect little cheese "gems" from burglars. — Jack Handey
I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they… — Nina Bawden
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they… — Bertrand Russell
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to… — Ross Macdonald
Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins. — Grenville Kleiser
Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores,… — Charles Portis
Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault. — James Chiles
You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house… — Saint Augustine
claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of… — Joseph Conrad
We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture. — Robin Williams
When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have… — Bob Woodward

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