Famous Proverbs
72 Proverbs about Thieves / Page 5
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There are more thieves than gallows.42.
When the miller is also the mayor, there are two thieves in one pair of trousers.43.
Whores and thieves are always very pious.44.
Old thieves make good jailers.45.
Petty thieves are hanged, you take off your hat to the big ones.46.
Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.47.
Thieves don't like to see their comrades carrying the bags.48.
When a girl is born it is like having six thieves invade the house.49.
War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.50.
A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers make three hundred thieves.