Quotes of Theft - somelinesforyou

“ Property is theft. ”

- Pierre Joseph Proudhon

“ Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ”

- Howard Aiken

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

- Edward F. Halifax

“ We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. ”

- Jean Anouilh

“ Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need. ”

- Bible

“ All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal? ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It is easier to rob a million men of a dollar each than to rob one man of a million. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. ”

- George Herbert

“ The real reason why Robin Hood robbed only the rich was that the poor had no money. ”

- Evan Esar

“ A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Robbery was obviously the motive. ”

- Stan Smith

“ How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread! ”

- Anatole France

“ A thief believes everybody steals. ”

- E.W. Howe

“ Flat burglary as ever was committed. - Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You sparkle with larceny. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ On Jan. 23, you will finally be able to hold the Liberals accountable for stealing your money, accountable for breaking your trust and accountable for failing to deliver on your priorities. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research. ”

- Unknown

“ Stolen sweets are best. ”

- Colley Cibber

“ There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued… ”

- William Booth

“ I would like to make a toast to lying, stealing, cheating and drinking. If you're going to lie, lie for a friend. If you're going to steal, steal a heart. If your going to cheat, cheat death. And if you're going to drink, drink with me. ”

- Unknown

“ If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. ”

- John Dryden

“ Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery. ”

- Remy de Gourmont

“ Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ”

- Jim Murray

“ A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another! ”

- William Shakespeare
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