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When thieves fall out, honest men come to their goods.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves, fall, man

When thieves fall out, honest men get their goods back.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves, fall, man

Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves, hunger, mother

Little thieves have iron chains, and great thieves gold ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

Little thieves are hanged by the neck, great ones by the purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

The monk preached against stealing, and had the good in his larder.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves, good, good luck

The friar preached against stealing when he had a pudding in his sleeve.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a hundred tailors are three hundred thieves.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves

All are not thieves that dogs bark at.

Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves, beauty

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves

Almsgiving never impoverished, stealing never enriched, and prosperity never made wise.

Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves, prosperity

Wasting time is stealing from oneself.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about thieves, time

Who weds a widow with three children takes four thieves into his house.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about thieves, children, home, house

There are more thieves than gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

Whores and thieves are always very pious.

Proverbs and old sayings French about saints, thieves

The great thieves lead away the little thieves.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

When thieves fall out the thefts are discovered.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves, fall

Great thieves always have their sleeves full of gags.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves