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Crime does not pay

Proverbs and old sayings British about crime, criminals, old, olderness

Crime is cunning; it puts an angel in front of every devil.

Proverbs and old sayings German about crime, criminals, devil

Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about crime, criminals, water

Crime doesn't pay.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about crime, criminals

Crimes may be secret, yet not secure.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about criminals, secret

Let the punishment fit the crime

Proverbs and old sayings British about punishment, crime, criminals, old, olderness

A crime eats its own child.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about crime, criminals, children

A newly committed crime awakens sleeping ones.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about crime, criminals

The greatest crime in a desert is to find water and keep silent about it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about crime, criminals, water

Poverty is not a crime, but it's better not to show it.

Proverbs and old sayings Brazilian about crime, criminals, poverty

What greater crime than loss of time?

Proverbs and old sayings British about crime, criminals, time

To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about crime, criminals, law

If stupidity were a crime, half the human race would be hanged at every crossroads.

Proverbs and old sayings about stupidity, crime, criminals, human imperfections

It's no crime to steal from a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about crime, criminals, thieves

Gossip is more horrible than a capital crime.

Proverbs and old sayings about crime, criminals

Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.

Proverbs and old sayings about crime, criminals, sin

Punishment awaits crime.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about punishment, crime, criminals

The act itself does not constitute a crime, unless the intent be criminal.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about criminals, crime

Living is not a reward and dying is no crime.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about reward, crime, criminals

The crime accuses itself.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about crime, criminals