It takes a thief to catch a thief


American Proverb

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Set a thief to catch a thief.
PROVERB
Set a thief to catch a thief
PROVERB
Set a thief to catch a thief.
ANONYMOUS
Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.
JAPANESE PROVERB
Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade
JAPANESE PROVERB
If they catch one [thief], maybe they'll catch two. Maybe then it will just stop.
BRENT PARSONS
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
ARISTOTLE
Police are confident they will catch this thief now that they have the photo.
DEBORAH GARCIA
The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief
PROVERB
As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker, so an unsuccessful author turns critic
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.
ZHUANGZI
You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.
GRAHAM GREENE
The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Opportunity makes a thief.
FRANCIS BACON
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A thief believes everybody steals.
EDWARD W. HOWE
A thief believes everybody steals.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
A thief believes everybody steals.
E. W. HOWE
A thief believes everybody steals.
E.W. HOWE
Kleptomaniac, n.: A rich thief.
AMBROSE BIERCE
A selfish man is a thief.
JOSE MARTI
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves mig...
ORHAN PAMUK
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-t...
JOHN FANTE
I caught the worm thief - it was a fish.
ANONYMOUS
Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Behold, I come as a thief.
BIBLE
Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.
REX HARRISON
No one likes a poor thief.
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's no crime to steal from a thief
PROVERB
It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief
JAPANESE PROVERB
Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief...
JIM ROHN
He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA
It is not easy to steal where the landlord is a thief
IRISH SAYINGS
What a deformed thief this fashion is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
PEARL S. BUCK
A thief stops stealing when he dies
SOTONYE ANGA
What a deformed thief this fashion is
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A thief never makes a noise by accident.
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER
It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room wil...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I turned to Thalia. ‘I’ll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?’
She sighed. ‘Fi...
RICK RIORDAN
He who steals once is always a thief
SPANISH PROVERB
When a thief kisses you, count your teeth
YIDDISH PROVERB
A liar will steal and a thief will kill
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB
A daily guest is a thief in the kitchen
PROVERB
whoever robs a thief gets a 100-year pardon.
DIEGO MARADONA
We hope that even a thief has a heart.
DAVE NAVARRO
True wealth does not burn; it cannot be stolen by a thief.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlighten...
DADA BHAGWAN
It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it
PROVERB
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turn...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
ANONYMOUS
Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery: The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Find me, my thief.
JESSICA KHOURY
Do you know why a vandal is worse than a thief?’ asked the man on the right, in a soft growl. ‘A...
FRANCES HARDINGE
I--buy, and I sell."
"You're a thief.
TAMORA PIERCE
Every collector is potentially (if not actually) a thief.
SUSAN SONTAG
I have never stolen. I am not a thief.
BENIGNO AQUINO III
Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of a...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Don King is a big ... thief, and everyone in this room knows it,
DONALD TRUMP
The wise prefer to decline a fictitious offer of a liar and a thief by leading them on that they are...
AVIS JOHN
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Time's the thief of memory
STEPHEN KING
One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.
MARKUS ZUSAK
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
CRISS JAMI
I feel like a thief. And I don't steal. Put two and two together. It ain't because of me. Ain't beca...
RUDI JOHNSON
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
JOHN UPDIKE
If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
EAMON DE VALERA
When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"
...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Sleep came on him as a thief, consciousness stolen like a forgotten coin from his pocket.
JASMINE SILVERA
I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find t...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; Steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickst...
ARAB PROVERB
Punctuality is the thief of time.
OSCAR WILDE
Procastination is the thief of Time.
VIJU CHAKRAVARTHY
Procrastination is the thief of time.
EDWARD YOUNG
Procastination is the thief of time.
JOSEPH HELLER
Time, the subtle thief of youth
JOHN MILTON
Time, the greatest thief of all.
ALLY CARTER
Punctuality is the thief of time
OSCAR WILDE
have you killed me, false thief?
CHAUCER GEOFFREY
The thief is no danger to the beggar
IRISH SAYINGS
I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Worry is a thief that steals the energy needed to solve the problem.
JIM GENOVESE
Don't take things. You are there to be an employee, not a thief.
SHARI SHORE
I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.
JOHAN CRUYFF
No one shall be a thief with me as his helper
JUVENAL
You can only be a thief of good ideas by listening
GRETCHEN DYKSTRA
My wife is a thief...
She takes the last cookie
Takes forever to get ready
She takes ...
DAVID JACKSON
A man whose axe was missing suspected his neighbor’s son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like...
JANE YOLEN
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Time is the greatest thief in life !
KAZERONNIE MAK
Fear is the thief of your dreams
SUPERNA BATHEJA
Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
PROVERB
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
YUSUF ISLAM
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
CAT STEVENS
Even a thief may have honor, and even a jinni may have a heart.
JESSICA KHOURY
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON

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