Thou Shalt Not Steal Quotes

#1. Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#2. Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.

Gary North

#3. He could do with some lunch. Especially since that bastard Sloane gave his Cheesy Doodles away. What kind of guy does that? A bastard, that's who. Did he not respect the male code of honor - thou shalt not steal another dude's snacks?
--Dex

Charlie Cochet

#4. Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

Jerome Lawrence

#5. Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

Branch Rickey

#6. Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God's I'd rather you didn't lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

Libba Bray

#7. The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

John Adams

#9. The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

George Carlin

#10. Thou shalt not steal-only from other comedians.

W.C. Fields

#11. Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress ... I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be willing to forego my prescription drugs if Congress would force some young American to mow my lawn.

Walter E. Williams

#12. So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

Homer

#13. It's the angle. You can't see me from where you're standing.

Susan Rieger

#14. Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

Mitch Landrieu

#15. Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it ... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

Michael Mosley

#16. You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. After all, she may have thought, do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies beyond the reach of words?

Virginia Woolf

#18. In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.

Bill Dedman

#19. Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

Mary Hart

#20. It's always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target.

Romain Grosjean

#21. I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#22. What I feared most, though, about my decision to remain celibate was that I had thereby doomed myself to lifelong loneliness.

Wesley Hill