Thieves Quotes - Page 4

Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

There's no thief like a bad movie.

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

Time's the thief of memory

If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

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 hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.