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We hang little thieves, and let great ones escape.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

They understand one another like thieves in a fair.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

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

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

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

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

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

When the miller is also the mayor, there are two thieves in one pair of trousers.

Proverbs and old sayings French 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

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

Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about poets, thieves, poverty, love