No receiver, no thief. [ Proverb ]
The hole calls the thief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Opportunity makes the thief. [ Proverb ]
Set a thief to catch a thief. [ Proverb ]
As safe as a thief in a mill. [ Proverb ]
A tattler is worse than a thief. [ Proverb ]
A fair booty makes many a thief. [ Proverb ]
Beggars may sing before a thief. [ Proverb ]
Ask my companion, if I'm a thief. [ Proverb ]
Punctuality is the thief of time. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The table robs more than a thief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Procrastination is the thief of time. [ Young ]
An idle man in the community is a thief. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Every true man's apparel fits your thief. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]
Shew me a liar and I'll shew you a thief. [ Proverb ]
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. [ William Shakespeare ]
When it thunders the thief becomes honest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Whilst it thunders the thief turns honest. [ Proverb ]
Be wise to-day! 'tis madness to defer;
Next day, the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life.
Procrastination is the thief of time. [ Edward Young ]
Show me a liar and I will show thee a thief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
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 ]
A thief knows a thief, as a wolf knows a wolf. [ Proverb ]
He is a thief with a witness who robs another. [ French Proverb ]
He's a thief, for he has taken a cup too much. [ Proverb ]
He that brings up his son to nothing, breeds a thief. [ Proverb ]
Here if you beat a bush, its odds but you start a thief. [ Proverb ]
Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no steal when he's auld. [ Scotch Proverb ]
A thief passes for a gentleman, when stealing has made him rich. [ Proverb ]
He that shews his wealth to a thief is the cause of his own pillage. [ Proverb ]
He's so much a thief, that he will steal away even the commandments. [ Proverb ]
Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]
The thief is sorry that he is to be hanged, but not that he is a thief. [ Proverb ]
As stout as a miller's waistcoat, that takes a thief by the neck every day. [ Proverb ]
He is a more impudent thief that robs openly, than he that steals privately. [ Proverb ]
He's so great a thief, that he stole even a piece of a halter from the gallows. [ Proverb ]
When a thief has no opportunity for stealing, he considers himself an honest man. [ Talmud ]
A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is often an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief. [ Hare ]
Bad company,
muttered the thief, as he stepped to the gallows between the hangman and a monk. [ Dutch Proverb ]
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. [ H. W. Shaw ]
O gentle sleep! my welcome breath shall hail thee midst our mortal strife, who art the very thief of life, the very portraiture of death. [ Alonzo de Ledesma ]
It is gold which buys admittance; and it is gold which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief: nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what can it not do and undo? [ William Shakespeare ]
Procrastination has been called a thief, - the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul. [ Nevins ]
Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner. [ Dr. Johnson ]