Quotes Tagged "thieves"

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

There is a difference between the irresistible impulse, and the impulse not resisted. And that is why the best thieves don't get caught.

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

When we wonder why crime doesn't stop or end. It is because the people who are committing it. We know them very well and we cant expose them. Instead, we protect them, because we benefit from their crime.

Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying out for mercy, Let there be no surcease to his agony till he sink in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not. When at last he goeth to his final punishment, Let the flames of Hell consume him forever. [attributed to the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona, Spain]

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.

Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers.

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Thieves don't usually make good therapists.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.