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

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

Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves, contentment

He that marries a widow with four children marries four thieves.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves, children

Save a thief from the gallows and he'll be the first who shall cut your throat.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about thieves

It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about proudness, thieves

Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about commerce, thieves

He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about thieves

Lying is the thief's stronghold.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, thieves

Thieves conceal themselves in the night not in the day.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves, night, day

The thief hates the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about moon, thieves

A thief not caught becomes a king.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves

Thieves dread a commotion.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about thieves

Opportunity makes a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about chance, thieves

Thief knows thief, and wolf knows wolf.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about thieves

They understand each other, like thieves at a fair.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about thieves

'Tis gold Which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief; Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what Can it not do, and undo?

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about thieves, man

Debts make the thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about thieves

Thieves don't like to see their comrades carrying the bags.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves

The thief thinks everybody steals.

Proverbs and old sayings Norwegian about thieves

A thief is a king till he's caught.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about thieves