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| A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a hundred tailors are three hundred thieves. Dutch. | 1 |
| A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers are three hundred thieves. Spanish. | 2 |
| A rackless hussie makes mony thieves. | 3 |
| A thief does not always thieve, but be always on your guard against him. Russian. | 4 |
| A thief does not willingly see another carry a basket. German. | 5 |
| A thief is better than a lazy servant. German. | 6 |
| A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf. | 7 |
| A thief makes opportunities. Dutch. | 8 |
| A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich. | 9 |
| A thief seldom grows rich by thieving. German. | 10 |
| A thief thinks every man steals. Danish. | 11 |
| All are not thieves whom the dogs bark at. German. | 12 |
| An old thief desires a new halter. | 13 |
| As stout as the miller’s waistcoat that takes a thief by the neck every day. | 14 |
| Every tribe has its thief, every mountain its wolf. Russian. | 15 |
| First a turnip, then a sheep, next a cow, and then the gallows. | 16 |
| Great thieves always have their sleeves full of gags. French. | 17 |
| Great thieves hang little ones. French. | 18 |
| He is a thief indeed that robs a thief. French. | 19 |
| He that showeth his wealth to a thief is the cause of his own pillage. | 20 |
| He who has a son grown up should not call another a thief. Spanish. | 21 |
| He is a thief for he has taken a cup too much. | 22 |
| Highways and streets have not all the thieves: shops have ten to one. | 23 |
| If there were no receiver, there would be no thief. Spanish. | 24 |
| If you cut down the woods you’ll catch the thief. | 25 |
| If you would make a thief honest trust him. Spanish. | 26 |
| Ill laying up makes many thieves. | 27 |
| It is hard to steal where the host himself is a thief. German, Dutch. | 28 |
| Look not at thieves eating flesh, but look at them suffering punishment. Chinese. | 29 |
| No receiver, no thief. | 30 |
No thief e’er felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law. | 31 |
| Opportunity makes the thief. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Danish. | 32 |
| Petty thieves are hanged, people take off their hats to great ones. German. | 33 |
| Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief. | 34 |
| Set a thief to catch a thief. | 35 |
| Stealing would be a nice thing if thieves were hanged by the girdle. Spanish. | 36 |
| The great thieves hang the small ones. German. | 37 |
| The great thieves punish the little ones. | 38 |
| The hole invites the thief. Spanish. | 39 |
| The thief becomes the gallows well. Portuguese. | 40 |
| The thief cannot find any tree that suits him for a gallows. German. | 41 |
| The thief is frightened even by a mouse. Italian. | 42 |
| The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief. | 43 |
| The thief proceeds from a needle to gold, and from gold to the gallows. Portuguese. | 44 |
| The thief steals until he comes to the gallows. German. | 45 |
| The thief thinks all men are like himself. Spanish, Portuguese. | 46 |
| There are more thieves than are hanged. Dutch. | 47 |
| There are more thieves than gibbets. Italian. | 48 |
| There is but one short step between lying and theft. | 49 |
| There is honor among thieves. | 50 |
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| There is no guarding against the privy thief. French. | 51 |
| Thick as thieves. | 52 |
| Thieves and rogues have the best luck if they do but escape hanging. | 53 |
| Thieves quarrel and thefts are discovered. Spanish. | 54 |
| Time and place make the thief. German, Dutch. | 55 |
| When it thunders the thief becomes honest. Italian. | 56 |
| When thieves fall out thefts are discovered. French. | 57 |
| Why is there honor among thieves? Because they usually hang together. Punch. | 58 |
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