Variant: Punctuality is the thief of time.
“I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
“The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 181
“Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.”
Source: Heist Society
“The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.”
Source: The Book Thief
“Set a thief to catch a thief.”
Epigram 43; translation by Robert Allason Furness, from Poems of Callimachus (1931), p. 103
Epigrams
Source: World Made By Hand (2008), Chapter 4, p. 20
“4106. Set a Thief to catch a Thief.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
