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There's no guarding against the privy thief.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll not steal when he's old.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves, old, olderness

Carelessness is worse than a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves

Time betrays and hangs the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, time

The concealer is as bad as the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, bad luck, bad

A thief seldom grows rich by thieving.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, wealth

He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, bad luck, bad

He goes as willingly as a thief to the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves

It is hard to steal where the host himself is a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves

Whore or thief young or old, welcome so you've got the gold.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, old, olderness

The thief cannot find any tree that suits him for a gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves

A monk in his cloister, a fish in the water, a thief in the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, water

He who cheats a cheat and robs a thief, earns a dispensation for 100 years.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves

Every beginning is hard, said the thief, when he began by stealing an anvil.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, beginning

A goat thief came along and they put him in jail.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about thieves

If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about society, thieves

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the horse thief not one.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, thieves, eyes

The patient thief is as a tree whose root runs deep as he waits for the sweet fruit..

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, thieves

The hat burns on the head of the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves, heads