Little thieves are hanged by the neck and great thieves by the purse


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Great thieves punish little ones.
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The great thieves lead away the little thief
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The great thieves lead away the little thief.
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MARK DURHAM
The big thieves hang the little ones.
CZECH PROVERB
The big thieves hang the little ones
CZECH PROVERB
. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The we...
WILLIAM COWPER
Reality's what other people dream for you.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
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The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it’s not known that they are thieves but because ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to office.
AESOP
The means was not clear by looking at it. Thieves are getting more clever and more creative in their...
KATHY COLLINS
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
AESOP
Giving alms to the rich is a luxury no beggar can afford.
MARTY RUBIN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Friends are thieves of time.
PROVERB
Friends are thieves of time.
FRANCIS BACON
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MICHELLE LANHAM
Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thi...
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But in a time of war, knowledge made interesting friendships. Soon, the scholars and the thieves wer...
KEN LIU
If such ,persons who are secret thieves, dwell in the realm of a king, they constantly harass his go...
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
WILLIAM PENN
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise
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Listen Like Thieves.
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By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
STEVIE NICKS
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
BEN KINGSLEY
Congress is where the liars and thieves meet.
VIKRANT PARSAI
We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both T...
CLIVE BARKER
Even among thieves the truth exist
PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
MICHAEL STUTZ
By the means of clever reformed thieves, who associate with such ,rogues , follow them and know thei...
GURU NANAK
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
LAO TZU
We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t...
SCOTT LYNCH
There is an old saying, that there is honour amongst thieves, and so it often proves.
FREDERICK MARRYAT
ألا تخشى الخفراء ؟
أخشاهم أكبر خشية يا سيدي لأنه غير ...
نجيب محفوظ
We need to jointly create an atmosphere, which supports the righteous deeds and frightens thieves. O...
YUAN GUODONG
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
GEORGE HERBERT
I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympat...
MATT DILLON
Office without pay makes thieves.
PROVERB
Crooks! Thieves! Hang ?em all!.
BOB REED
There is honor among thieves.
PROVERB
Thieves must sit in prison.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
I think that they're thieves.
LAURA EPLEY
The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.
LAO-TZU
Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies...
CHARLES DUHIGG
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death impos...
ED MCBAIN
Those who are appointed to guard provinces and his vassals who have been ordered ,to help , he shall...
GURU NANAK
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
BIBLE
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EURIPIDES
There was a robot invented in China that catches thieves. In Australia it caught 10 thieves, in Ame...
ANONYMOUS
He said it was his plan. The implication is that these people had heard Myles Connor's plan, but ins...
HAROLD SMITH
A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an ...
GERMAN PROVERB
A greedy father has thieves for children
SERBIAN PROVERB
They go to holy places for a bath, Their minds are impure and bodies are like thieves; If by bath th...
GURU NANAK
The thieves probably thought it was a laptop or something.
MANUEL TEIXEIRA
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
MARY HARRIS JONES
Too many stairs and back doors make thieves and whores
BALTHAZAR GERBIER
A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but acco...
GEORGE ORWELL
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER
You mean she and he are thick as thieves? She has given him the key to her city?
MARCEL PROUST
As one door opens, you can be sure that the thieves are going out the other one.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
BRENT SPINER
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves
KARL KRAUS
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MARKUS ZUSAK
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
ABEL FERRARA
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hir...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Most of them, ... appear to be just plain thieves.
ALAN PALLER
We know we're going into the den of thieves and we're going to have to go steal some.
GREG BEALS
Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picke...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Solid objects will not keep anyone safe in this conflict.
AKUTRA-RAMSES ATENOSIS CEA
Let me enlighten you. We are a pack of liars, thieves, and wastrels, the lot of
us...There is n...
ALISSA JOHNSON
What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. �...
SCOTT LYNCH
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves
ARISTOPHANES
That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of...
BUD ABBOTT
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
KARL KRAUS
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
FIDEL CASTRO
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
The cliche is that misery loves company. Another is that there is fellowship among thieves. But thie...
R.C. SPROUL
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
JOHN LITHGOW
How people started to disappear??
It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% su...
DEYTH BANGER
We crucify ourselves between two thieves- regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
UNKNOWN
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
FULTON OURSLER
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
FULTON OURSLER
Thieves, thugs, those who drink and drive, and drug dealers: We're coming after you.
GLENN WALP
The number 1 rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
JIMMY BRESLIN
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
JIMMY BRESLIN
That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves ou...
BUD ABBOTT
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a s...
JEAN GENET
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sun...
JEAN GENET
'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodsto...
FRANK MILLER
O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is when pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.
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