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A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about kitchen, thieves

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

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

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

Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves, hunger, mother

Little thieves have iron chains, and great thieves gold ones.

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

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 companies, thieves, bad luck, bad

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.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about trap, thieves, lie, man

A fair booty makes a fair thief.

Proverbs and old sayings English 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

Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no' steal when he's old.

Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves, old, olderness

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves

Who weds a widow with three children takes four thieves into his house.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about thieves, children, home, house

The thief believes that everybody steals.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves