Thieves Quotes - Page 11

Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

My goodness, you're 60 already, already Time is a thief But still, you're only as old as your tongue And a little bit older than your teeth Have a wonderful birthday

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments.

Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

You remember from watching the show, there are no "jokes." That's why if you see people on Twitter accusing me of being a "joke thief," I just tell them to come to one of my shows.

Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!

I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.

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

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

The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]

There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

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 in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

Friends are thieves of time.