Burglar Quotes

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing If my burglar alarm starts ringing

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

There is more than one way to burn a book.

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana.

We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home.

We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech.

We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars;

we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher.

Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

There's more than one way to be a girl

I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much.

See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.