Burglar Quotations | Page 2

That's one lock he won't be able to pick for ten years." (referring to a lock-picking house burglar who received ten to 20 years in prison, as reported in Reader's Digest, February 1996.)

Obviously, he was specific in looking for electronics, and this church has them. It's unusual for a burglar to return to the same place. We are fortunate that this church has such great surveillance.

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

Burglars aren't stupid. They make a living doing bad things to people's houses and belongings, and they sell them for about one tenth of what they're worth. So they have to do three or four a day.

Burglars and bad guys don't like noise. Silence is their friend. They don't want to see lights. They don't want to see noise.

They've proven to be very effective because of the simple fact that if I were going to break into your home and I see even a sticker on the window that says you have an alarm system, most burglars will move on to the next house.

It works like a burglar alarm, a beam that goes across a doorway. Once the beam is broken it triggers the bomb.

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human attacker are 1-in-177. The odds that the victim will be a child are 7-in-10.

I'd probably be a burglar, I'd burgle people.