A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.

To keep my hands from picking and stealing.

To keep my hands from picking and stealing.

He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face

Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't,
Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:
The sun's read more

Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't,
Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n
From gen'ral excrement.

It's no crime to steal from a thief

It's no crime to steal from a thief

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

A thief believes everybody steals.

A thief believes everybody steals.

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
places of the city,
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For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
places of the city,
To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that
wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.