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
When thieves fall out, honest men get their goods back.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
Little thieves have iron chains, and great thieves gold ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
Little thieves are hanged by the neck, great ones by the purse.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
The monk preached against stealing, and had the good in his larder.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an anvil.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
The friar preached against stealing when he had a pudding in his sleeve.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a hundred tailors are three hundred thieves.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
Bad company, said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves
Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
Proverbs and old sayings about thieves
Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; Steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.