Great thieves hang little ones. [ German ]
Ill layers up make many thieves. [ Proverb ]
There are more thieves than gallows. [ German Proverb ]
All are not thieves that dogs bark at. [ Proverb ]
War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Beauty provokes thieves sooner than gold. [ William Shakespeare ]
The great thieves punish the little ones. [ Proverb ]
He who has many servants has many thieves. [ Dutch Proverb ]
When the searching eye of heaven is hid
Behind the globe, and lights the lower world,
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen,
In murthers and in outrage boldly here. [ William Shakespeare ]
Like a loader's horse, that lives among thieves. [ Proverb ]
Two daughters and a back door, are three arrant thieves. [ Proverb ]
Little thieves have iron chains and great thieves gold ones. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Small faults indulged are little thieves, that let in greater. [ Proverb ]
He that marries a wife and three children marries four thieves. [ Proverb ]
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. [ Goethe ]
Highways and streets have not all the thieves; shops have ten for one. [ Proverb ]
Thieves for their robbery have authority, when judges steal themselves. [ William Shakespeare ]
In love, it is as it was with the thieves of Sparta: only the awkward are punished.
An hundred traitors, an hundred weavers, and an hundred millers, make three hundred thieves. [ Proverb ]
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. [ Seneca ]
Vanity is the fruit of ignorance. It thieves most in subterranean places, never reached by the air of heaven, and the light of the sun. [ Hoss ]