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Proverbs about Stealing

Stealing Quotes

A clever thief surprises the master of the house.

(Turkish Proverb)

Avarice is the root of all evil. (African Proverb)

No thief steals love but love often makes thieves.

(Swedish Proverb)

A stolen orange is better tasting than your own. (African Proverb)

If a thief finds nothing to steal, he thinks himself honest. (Hebrew Proverb)

There are no limits to avarice. (Japanese Proverb)

Thieves nowadays are not in the forest but in the offices. (Rumanian Proverb)

It is not for the stealing that you are punished, but for getting caught. (Russian Proverb)

When two thieves quarrel, the farmer gets back his cow.

(Finnish Proverb)

Opportunity makes the thief. (English Proverb)

Public money is like holy water, everyone helps himself to it. (Italian Proverb)

We hang little thieves and take off our hats to great ones.

(German Proverb)

Where there is money there is the devil;

but where there is none, there he is twice.

(German Proverb)

Stealing and giving away for charity is still stealing.

(Yiddish Proverb)

Catch the thief before he catches you.

(Rumanian Proverb)

Big thieves hang little ones. (Czech Proverb)

It is not enough to know how to steal; one must know also to conceal. (Italian Proverb)

A thief is a thief whether he steals a diamond or a cucumber.

(Indian Proverb)

A thief profits little where his host is a thief. (Russian Proverb)

He who likes to take does not like to give.

(Yiddish Proverb)

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