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There are more thieves than gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

He is a thief indeed who robs a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

Whores and thieves are always very pious.

Proverbs and old sayings French about saints, thieves

There's no guarding against the privy thief.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

The great thieves lead away the little thieves.

Proverbs and old sayings French about 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

Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll not steal when he's old.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves, old, olderness

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

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves

Nothing so bold as a miller's shirt (because it takes a thief by the throat every morning).

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves, nothing

Carelessness is worse than a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings 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

Time betrays and hangs the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, time

The concealer is as bad as the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, bad luck, bad

Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, fear, love

A thief seldom grows rich by thieving.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, wealth

A thief who steals from a thief is not a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves

He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, bad luck, bad