#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

Friends are thieves of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#thieves #time

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ↗

— Aesop

#appoint #great #great ones #hang #office

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

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#basically #business #film #film business #honor

Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time. ↗

— Meyer Lansky

#just #look #matter #now #people

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#chief #forward #him #must #party

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor. ↗

— John McCarthy

#honor #thieves

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#booty #came #cars #city #different

My body is my own," I said. "I may choose to share it with someone, but it's not for sale or for hire, nor is it a reward. I'd rather starve to death than use it as such. ↗

— Erica Dakin

#fantasy #half-elves #prostitution #rin #romance