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"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."
"Friends are thieves of time."
"When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]"
"The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]"
"The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves."
"You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?"
"You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom."
"We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites."
"We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights."
"Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time."
"Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew."
"The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it."
"Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!"
