Proverb Quotes

You say you nothing owe, and so I say; He only owes, who has something to pay.

Never promise a poor person, and never owe a rich one.

Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.

If you share your friend’s crime, you make it your own.

It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate – their love.

When a thief kisses you, count your teeth.

A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.

The thief is no danger to the beggar.

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.

It is wit to pick a lock, and steal a horse, but wisdom to let it alone.