“ Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. - Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ Every true man's apparel fits your thief. - Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back… ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ I don't want to be disrespectful to the partners I had,... They're all very talented, and they've all had a hand in my success.... Some of them I don't like, and some of them don't like me, but I respect them all. ”
- Dave Mustaine- Copy
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“ A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. ”
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey- Copy
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“ Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest. ”
- Rickey Henderson- Copy
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“ The sweets of pillage can be knownTo no one but the thief,Compassion for integrityIs his divinest grief. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
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