He that steals can hide. [ Proverb ]
Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow. [ William Cowper ]
He that steals an egg will steal an ox. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Time steals away without any inconvenience. [ Montaigne ]
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 concourse of an eternal scene. [ Young ]
To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. [ Bryant ]
The eastern hanging crescent climbeth higher;
See, purple on the azure softly steals.
And Morning, faintly touched with quivering fire
Leans on the frosty summits of the hills,
Like a young girl over her hoary sire. [ Roscoe ]
Beauty? thou pretty plaything! dear deceit,
That steals so softly over the stripling's heart
And gives it a new pulse unknown before! [ Blair ]
He steals a hog, and gives away the feet in alms. [ Proverb ]
Her tongue steals away all the time from her hands. [ Proverb ]
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash;
'Tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. [ William Shakespeare ]
He who makes an attack in the night, steals a victory. [ Alexander the Great ]
He that knows what may be gained in a day never steals. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The morning steals upon the night. Melting the darkness. [ William Shakespeare ]
He wrongs not an old man who steals his supper from him. [ Proverb ]
Time glides on stealthily, and eludes us as it steals past. [ Ovid ]
Sim steals the horse, and carries home the bridle honestly. [ Proverb ]
He who binds his soul to knowledge steals the key of heaven. [ N. P. Willis ]
He that finds a thing, steals it, if he endeavours not to restore it. [ Proverb ]
He is a more impudent thief that robs openly, than he that steals privately. [ Proverb ]
By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels. [ Savage ]
Time steals on and escapes us, like the swift river that glides on with rapid stream. [ Ovid ]
There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly, and covers itself under more disguises, than pride. [ Addison ]
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it. [ Colton ]
Let's take the instant by the forward top; for we are old, and on our quick'st decrees the inaudible and noiseless foot of Time steals, ere we can effect them. [ William Shakespeare ]
We should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. [ C. C. Cotton ]
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. [ Juvenal ]
Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minster's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves. [ Percival ]
What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]