For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
places of the city,
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For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
places of the city,
To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that
wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten read more

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

The big thieves hang the little ones

The big thieves hang the little ones

O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name!
The one ne'er got me credit, the other read more

O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name!
The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.

To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, read more

To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less

A thief believes everybody steals.

A thief believes everybody steals.

Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.

Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face

There is honor among thieves.

There is honor among thieves.