When the miller is also the mayor, there are two thieves in one pair of trousers.
Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves
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If you forgive the fox for stealing your chickens, he will take your sheep.
Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about thieves
Old thieves make good jailers.
Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, good, good luck, old, olderness
Office without pay makes thieves.
Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves
Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts.
Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, fear, love
Cheating is more honourable than stealing.
Proverbs and old sayings German about cheating, thieves
We hang little thieves, and take off our hats to great ones.
Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves
Petty thieves are hanged, you take off your hat to the big ones.
Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves
If you don't want to be hung yourself, blame the dog for stealing the sausage.
Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves
Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about poets, thieves, poverty, love
There are more thieves than gibbets.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves
Borderers are either thieves or murderers.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves
It is not easy to steal in thieves' houses.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves
He that marries a widow with four children marries four thieves.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves, children
Thieves conceal themselves in the night not in the day.
Proverbs and old sayings about thieves, night, day
Thieves dread a commotion.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about thieves
They understand each other, like thieves at a fair.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about thieves
Thieves don't like to see their comrades carrying the bags.
Proverbs and old sayings about thieves
When a girl is born it is like having six thieves invade the house.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about thieves, home, house
When thieves fall out, their knaveries come to light.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves, light, fall
