Quotes of Thief - somelinesforyou

“ Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. ”

- Amy Lowell

“ If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield

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

- Lao tzu

“ What a deformed thief this fashion is. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Economy is the thief of time. ”

- Ethel Watts Mumford

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ Opportunity makes a thief. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene. ”

- Edward Young

“ Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure. ”

- Rex Harrison

“ And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves. ”

- James Joyce

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

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Don't get excited about a tax cut. It's like a mugger giving you back car fare. ”

- Arnold H. Glasow

“ Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. ”

- Unknown

“ We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm — it was gone. ”

- Unknown

“ Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. ”

- Rita Coolidge

“ Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out. ”

- Mariano Azuela

“ A thief believes everybody steals. ”

- E.W. Howe

“ All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific. ”

- Jane Wagner

“ Punctuality is the thief of time. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ 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

“ Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. ”

- Aristotle

“ Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. ”

- Unknown

“ Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history. ”

- Unknown
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