Man Honest Thief Quotes & Sayings

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing. — Guy De Maupassant

Myths, however, consist of symbols that were not invented but happened. — C. G. Jung

Our words are powerful, and they have consequences. — Karen Ehman

In a world of change and decay not even the man of faith can be completely happy. Instinctively he seeks the unchanging and is bereaved at the passing of dear familiar things. Yet much as we may deplore the lack of stability in all earthly things, in a fallen world such as this the very ability to change is a golden treasure, a gift from God of such fabulous worth as to call for constant thanksgiving. For human beings the whole possibility of redemption lies in their ability to change. To move across from one sort of person to another is the essence of repentance; the liar becomes truthful, the thief honest, the lewd pure, the proud humble. The whole moral texture of the life is altered. The thoughts, the desires, the affections are transformed, and the man is no longer what he had been before. — A.W. Tozer

If this is Heaven, I am in big trouble. — J.C. Morrows

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying) — Louis L'Amour

Give me ambiguity or something else. — Lynne Sears Williams

An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait. — Leo Tolstoy

I want to want to go to work in the morning. — Nick Woodman

God has given you this good stuff so that you can show the world a person who enjoys blessings, but who is still totally obsessed with God. — Francis Chan

God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not. — Smith Wigglesworth

The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth. — Theodore Roosevelt

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts. — John Andreas Widtsoe

We're all naturally curious when we're eight years old. But as most people get older, they become less and less curious, so they ask other people to be curious for them. That's what I do for a living. — Ron Miriello

Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. — Peter Drucker

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it. — Frances Hardinge

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night. — Julia Caroline Dorr

The Thief who has no opportunity to steal, thinks he is an Honest man. — Anupam Kher

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. — Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes a mistake isn't a what. It's a who. — Stephanie Perkins

You cannot con an honest man. — Ally Carter

A tax dollar paid today is far more expensive than one paid in future dollars. With inflation, money becomes less valuable over time because of the cost of goods increases. — Coreen T. Sol