Thieves Quotes

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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately… — Ambrose Bierce
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
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. — Jimmy Breslin
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
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. — Thomas Carlyle
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. — William Penn
You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief — Stephen Kellogg
Time is the thief you cannot banish. — Phyllis McGinley

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