The thief is no danger to the beggar.
Crime Quotes
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. (Hamlet)
A little stealing is a dangerous part, But stealing largely is a noble art; ‘Tis mean to rob a hen roost, or a hen, But stealing thousands makes us gentlemen.
Didst thou never hear – That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell? (Henry VI)
The informer is the worst rogue of the two.
If hen-stealing prevail to a plainly unendurable extent, will you station police-officers on every hen-roost; and keep them watching and cruising incessantly to and fro over the parish, in the unwholesome dark, at enormous expense, with almost no effect? Or will you not try rather to discover where the fox’s den is, and kill the […]
There was a widely held but unprofessed belief in Mississippi that a good sherrif must be a little crooked to insure law and order. Whiskey whoring and gambling were simply facts of life, and a good sherrif must be knowledgeable in these affairs to properly regulate them and protect the christians. Those vices could not […]
Poverty is the mother of crime.
“There’s the King’s Messenger. He’s in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn’t begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all” – “Suppose he never commits the crime?” said Alice. “That would be all the better, wouldn’t it?” the Queen said.
Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered I’ve seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen.
