Quotes of Stolen - somelinesforyou

“ The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! ”

- John Milton

“ Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. ”

- Edward F. Halifax

“ Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever. ”

- Louis L’Amour

“ We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise you have just stolen our philosophy. ”

- Jayvantsinnji Gohel

“ Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole life in three of four pages. I used that method. ”

- Marguerite Young

“ A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one. ”

- Guy de Maupassant

“ How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless — but they can be stolen. ”

- Chuck Swindoll

“ He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. ”

- William Congreve

“ If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. ”

- Anne Bradstreet

“ The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.'. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ Stolen sweets are best. ”

- Colley Cibber

“ Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there. ”

- John Flansburgh

“ A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. ”

- Edgar A. Shoaff

“ All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back… ”

- Simone Weil

“ People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. ”

- Bernard Mandeville

“ We are a sad lot, the cell biologists. Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex. ”

- Lorraine Lee Cudmore

“ There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that. ”

- Bill Gates
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