Quotes About Larceny

#1. Death is a thief, the grandest perpetrator of larceny of all. It robs the potential of all the things left undone and reimburses the living with bits of memories that, with each day, pass through the fingers like a handful of sand.

Ron Perlman

#2. About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

Arthur Baer

#3. People love gentle larceny.

Dan Aykroyd

#4. The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.

Calvin Coolidge

#5. Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world.

Richard Ney

#6. You sparkle with larceny.

Wilson Mizner

#7. The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#8. One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

Robert Bork

#9. If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.

Peter Singer

#10. I thought about the kind of man who would stop off somewhere for a gun but not put on a pair of pants before committing grand larceny.

Tom Piccirilli

#11. There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

Gaylord Perry

#12. I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

James Garner

#13. There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

Will Rogers

#14. If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Paul Gallico

#15. Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

James M. Cain

#16. His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.

Arthur Baer

#17. It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries ... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. She had the face of a chocolate box Madonna and larceny in her heart.

Deanna Raybourn

#19. A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

Finley Peter Dunne

#20. Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.

Adam Schiff

#21. I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.

Debby Ryan

#22. There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.

Kim Smith

#23. Peace is of the heart, not of the mind. To know peace you have to find out what beauty is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#24. One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

C.L.R. James

#25. You'll be perfect when you're dead

Dan Harmon

#26. I've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.

Brooke Burke

#27. When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity.

Eric Holder

#28. Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

Ivan Reitman

#29. Made you breakfast. Are you feeling okay? You look a little gray." I grunt. Morning is the devil's time.

Francesca Zappia

#30. I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#31. The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

William Dampier

#32. Something new seems to be at work in the contemporary world - a process that is eating away the very heart of social life, not merely by putting salesmanship in place of moral virtue, but by putting everything - virtue included - on sale.

Roger Scruton

#33. I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to help pick you up out of it, especially if you're going through the hurting part.

Ashton Shepherd

#34. Jesus, I live for Thee, I labor for Thee, I desire only Thee. Thou in me and I in Thee; Thou with me and I with Thee; Thou all mine and I all Thine.

Rose Philippine Duchesne