Thieves Quotes - Page 2

• The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...

  Michael Nesmith

  Civilization, People, Benefits

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opportunity, Decision, Blind

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• Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

  Rod Stewart

  Philosophy, Life Is, Undecided

  Song: Young Turks

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• A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sea, Pirate, Navy

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• Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, Government, Hands

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 16

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• My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

  Charles Dickens

  Procrastination, Advice, Today

  Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.160, Penguin

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• You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

  Andrew Jackson

  Nwo, Presidential, Vipers

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• Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

  Ben Jonson

  Lying, Doors, Judging

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.145, Manchester University Press

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• He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

  Jose Marti

  Office, Use, Voters

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• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Trust No One, Order

  "Tao Te Ching". Ch. 57, 4th century BC.

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• Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

  Laozi

  Greed, Profit

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• When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Boys, Men

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• Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.

  J. K. Rowling

  Greed, Treasure, Pay

  J. K. Rowling, “Grigotts Wizarding Bank Poem”

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• The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Integrity, Grief

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.562, Harvard University Press

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• Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Gold

  1599-1600 Rosalind to Celia. AsYou Like It, act1, sc.3, l.107-9.

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• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

  Michael Nesmith

  People, Way, Honest

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.

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• I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Shoes, Economic Inequality

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, edited by Mary Field Parton, (p. 46), 2004.

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• Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

  Karl Kraus

  Jealousy, Dog, Bark

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Mind

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11

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• If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

  Brigham Young

  Suffering, May, Want

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.108

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• There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought “Someday I will” can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Inspirational, Bible, God

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Jan 08, 2015

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• The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Gang, Individual, Grasping

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• A selfish man is a thief.

  Jose Marti

  Selfish, Men, Selfish Men

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos". Book by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we'd call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do - redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God.

  Walter E. Williams

  Eye, Two, Government

  "Bogus Right" by Walter E. Williams, econfaculty.gmu.edu. February 8, 2006.

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