Home » Quote » Zhuangzi » „The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.“ „The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.“ — Zhuangzi Related quotes „The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.“ — Terry Pratchett „The sun is a thief: she lures the seaand robs it. The moon is a thief:he steals his silvery light from the sun.The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.“ — Vladimir Nabokov „Comparison is the thief of joy.“ — Theodore Roosevelt „Time's the thief of memory“ — Stephen King