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You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers. — Clive Anderson

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers. — Joe Mantegna

It's always fun to play cops and robbers. — Timothy Olyphant

There was nothing left for the dollar, nothing except a cold, cruel end.
Until, that is, the bank robbers burst into the back room. — T.R. Whittier

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone. — Berry Gordy

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. — Ambrose Bierce

And as robbers prove sometimes gallant soldiers, so soldiers often prove brave robbers, so near an alliance there is between those two sorts of life. — Thomas More

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time. — Jay Leno

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe. — Sean Connery

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. — Lao-Tzu

Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals. — George W. Bush

The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers. — William Hazlitt

Consul', remarked the detective, dogmatically, 'great robbers always resemble honest folks. — Julius Verne

I only want to talk to you. The robbers are all in bed by now. Drunks, drifters, and poets are the only ones up this late at night. — Kurt Vonnegut

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear. — Laozi

The priests were deferential, siding with Rome, and those who opposed them were said to be robbers and thugs, my father and his friends among — Alice Hoffman

But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind. This — John Calvin

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.] — Juvenal

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's an awful snug place for orgies." "What orgies?" "I dono. But robbers always have orgies, and of course we've got to have them, too. — Mark Twain

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be ruthlessly supressed. — Eugene V. Debs

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat! — Diana Wynne Jones

A kiss on the lips and a dagger in the heart,' as in Schiller's Robbers.7 — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Free Hawks is fighters, I says.
Warriors, she says, like you. An occasional highway robbers. — Moira Young

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers. — Scott Lynch

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations. — John King

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. — Nicolas Cage

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic. — Joey Comeau

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert. — Lysander Spooner

Every State looks upon its neighbours as at bottom a horde of robbers, who will fall upon it as soon as they have the opportunity. — Arthur Schopenhauer

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. — William Irwin Thompson

I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names. — Will Rogers

Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too late! — Israelmore Ayivor

I've always been, in games, the bad guy. If there was ever cops and robbers I was always a robber. — Jake M. Johnson

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. — Lysander Spooner

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. — Edward Dahlberg

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual
masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe. — Christina Stead

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business. — Broderick Crawford

If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers. — Lao-Tzu

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers. — Honore De Balzac

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes. — Warren Buffett

Well, our operations are definable as robbery and murder," he agreed. "Space Vikings are professional robbers and murderers. — H. Beam Piper

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. — Walter Benjamin

In China we believe "rob the rich to feed the poor." But robbers here have no poetry. — Xiaolu Guo

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. — Victor Hugo

You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny. — Chris O'Donnell

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. — John White Geary

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary." — Miguel De Cervantes

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Fears are undetected robbers, stealing from our present, robbing us of our future and are mostly rooted in our past! EL — Evinda Lepins