Proverb Quotes

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

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

He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter.

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.

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.

The greater the man, the greater the crime.