Famous quotes containing the words thief and/or steals:
“In ancient timestwas no great loss
They hung the thief upon the cross:
But now, alas!I sayt with grief
They hang the cross upon the thief.”
—Anonymous. On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour, from Aubrey Stewarts English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)
“A good seat on a horse steals away your opponents courage and your onlookers heartwhat reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)