#thieves

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#kings #priests #thieves #age

War makes thieves and peace hangs them. ↗

— George Herbert

#hangs #makes #peace #them #thieves

Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#dealing-with-people #friendships #guidance #life-and-living #people

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. ↗

— Thomas More

#manners #politics #punishment #scapegoats #thieves

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody. ↗

— Bud Abbott

#everybody #guys #making #many #out

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#banker #bus #containing #crime #fare

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#grab #ignore #like #men #possessions

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#number #rule #small #steal #thieves

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#between #cowardly #fight #own #quarrel

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. ↗

— Frank Miller

#clowns #false #fed #harm #mob