They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.

We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

The similarity of thoughts or the point of view between the two persons may appear a case of like-mindedness, but the fact could be one is trying to snatch the credit of others for own selfishness.

Bush used that line recently. I should sue him for plagiarism.

I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]