Thief Quotes

399 quotes by 311 authors

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater… — William Blake
Hunger makes a thief of any man. — Pearl S. Buck
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief. — Sitting Bull
The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is… — John Cassian
Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to. — John Hagee
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. — Josh Billings
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words… — Frederick Buechner
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a… — Tim O'Reilly
Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ... — Anne Sexton
You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief — Stephen Kellogg
Time is the thief you cannot banish. — Phyllis McGinley
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. — William Shakespeare
An art thief is a man who takes pictures. — George Carlin
Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did — Henny Youngman
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. — Joe Garagiola
Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure. — Rex Harrison
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. — Thomas Huxley
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. — Rumi
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
What a deformed thief this fashion is. — William Shakespeare

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