When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists. We are lucky, indeed, if the needless bureaucrats are mere easy-going loafers. They are more likely today to be energetic reformers busily discouraging and disrupting production.
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
Punctuality is the thief of adventure.
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King. . . the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.
When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.
A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught
A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.
My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.
You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler