Great thieves hang little ones. [ German ]

Ill layers up make many thieves. [ Proverb ]

There are more thieves than gallows. [ German Proverb ]

All are not thieves that dogs bark at. [ Proverb ]

War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Beauty provokes thieves sooner than gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

The great thieves punish the little ones. [ Proverb ]

He who has many servants has many thieves. [ Dutch Proverb ]

When the searching eye of heaven is hid
Behind the globe, and lights the lower world,
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen,
In murthers and in outrage boldly here. [ William Shakespeare ]

Like a loader's horse, that lives among thieves. [ Proverb ]

Two daughters and a back door, are three arrant thieves. [ Proverb ]

Little thieves have iron chains and great thieves gold ones. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Small faults indulged are little thieves, that let in greater. [ Proverb ]

He that marries a wife and three children marries four thieves. [ Proverb ]

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. [ Goethe ]

Highways and streets have not all the thieves; shops have ten for one. [ Proverb ]

Thieves for their robbery have authority, when judges steal themselves. [ William Shakespeare ]

In love, it is as it was with the thieves of Sparta: only the awkward are punished.

An hundred traitors, an hundred weavers, and an hundred millers, make three hundred thieves. [ Proverb ]

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. [ Seneca ]

Vanity is the fruit of ignorance. It thieves most in subterranean places, never reached by the air of heaven, and the light of the sun. [ Hoss ]