Quotation Explorer - 'Thief'

Procrastination is the thief of time. - Edward Young
What a deformed thief this fashion is. - William Shakespeare
Punctuality is the thief of time - Oscar Wilde
If you wouldn't invite a thief in your house why would you allow a liar in. the only difference between the two is the thief steals your money and objects the liar steals with words by deceit of manipulation by - Bonnie Zackson Koury
Time is like a thief in the night. Don't be caught sleeping on it; One day you'll wake up and everything is gone. - Andrea L'Artiste
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! - John Milton
Look under your bed and you will know the greatest thief in your room. - ABC
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. - Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Impatience is the thief of success. - Rebekah L. Pierce
There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief... - Bob Dylan
Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don't be a courage thief. - Benjamin Lotter
A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience. - William Shakespeare
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’. - Martin Luther King Jr.
We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life. - Leo Tolstoy
When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief. - Israelmore Ayivor
Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul. - Stefan Emunds
Man as a thief cannot enjoy life he can only steal, kill and destroy harmony of society. - Kishore Bansal
Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The instinct of the thief is most strongly marked in the Skua tribe, and I am afraid that the mere love of thieving alone actuates them on many occasions. - George Murray Levick
Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future. - Bernard Kelvin Clive
I'm Kieran. You must be a hell of a thief because you stole my heart from across the room, - Jayde Scott
You must be the most beautiful and sophisticated thief I have ever met. Secretly you stole my heart without my knowledge. - Debasish Mridha
I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances. - Jeanette Winterson
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. - William Shakespeare
KLEPTOMANIAC, n. A rich thief. - Ambrose Bierce
It’s a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief. - Mitch Michaelson
ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute - Ambrose Bierce
Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid. - C. JoyBell C.
Comparison is the thief of joy. - Theodore Roosevelt
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. - William Congreve
One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night. - Deborah Brown
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. - Bible
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. - William Shakespeare
In every family there is a murderer, a thief and a crazy person. And if you have a little Blue blood in the line, you can be sure there are more than one of each. - Clark Jeffries
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