It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit.


Marguerite de Angeli

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A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.
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A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow
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a crooked truth is far straight than a straight lie
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
A crooked log makes a strait fire [A crooked log makes a straight fire.]
GEORGE HERBERT
One of his legs was shorter than the other one. But his spine was also crooked and it drew his hip u...
DARYL NEWCOMB
More cotton will grow on a crooked row than a straight one.
BARBARA SWELL
I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.
JOHN GREEN
There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooke...
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It doesn't matter if we have a crooked electoral council, ... We have to go out and vote.
HENRY RAMOS
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, w...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
...to crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction be...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.
JENNIFER CRUSIE
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W.C. FIELDS
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. FIELDS
We have seen / Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, / Straight minds grown crooked fighting c...
EDWIN MUIR
Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right ch...
G.K. CHESTERTON
No public man can be just a little crooked.
HERBERT HOOVER
It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
It's ineffective, it's misguided, it's crooked and it should be stopped.
KEVIN TAFT
The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked.
ELBERT HUBBARD
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
CHINESE PROVERB
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
CHINESE PROVERBS
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line...
ALFRED NOBEL
Don’t take advice from people while building a house otherwise you will have a crooked house.
VIKRANT PARSAI
It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
JILL PETERSON
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. FIELDS
It's good, it worked out well. We put a nice crooked number up early.
TERRY FRANCONA
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were...
KURT VONNEGUT
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks, even if your teeth are crooked.
UNKNOWN
If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked
CHINESE PROVERBS
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
BENJAMIN J. MONTALBANO
These three take crooked ways: carts, boats, and musicians
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The plate was crooked, so obviously the pitches were a little off.
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He had no idea how wonderful he was. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them. ...
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I'm not certain that voters are sophisticated enough to see this as Republican wrongdoing rather tha...
CHARLES RANGEL
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
GEORGE HERBERT
I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till the lightnin...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.
LEIGH BARDUGO
How many times have you told me you're a monster? So be a monster. Be the thing they all fear when t...
LEIGH BARDUGO
And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.
LEIGH BARDUGO
That which is crooked cannot be made straight and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
ECCLESIASTES
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he wil...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Out of ten listener, only one can recite accurately what he/she heard exactly from the speaker, othe...
BRADLEY B. DALINA
People don't believe that their congressman is crooked just because you say he is. There's really mo...
CARL FORTI
My teeth are crooked, my nose is broken. I've never thought of myself as beautiful
JESSICA LANGE
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
JACK STEINBERGER
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it...
DWIGHT L. MOODY
I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, tha...
STEPHEN KING
I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
ANTHONY KIEDIS
That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind le...
LES STANDIFORD
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
EDWARD ABBEY
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
NAPOLEON HILL
Okay,” I said. “Okay,” he answered. I could hear his crooked smile. •
JOHN GREEN
Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crook...
VANITY
You've got Perry in the middle of this thing. It looks about as crooked as a barrel of snakes.
CRIS FELDMAN
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
IMMANUEL KANT
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
EDWARD HAND
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned
EDWARD HAND
37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
GROUCHO MARX
There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.
MARK TWAIN
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
IMMANUEL KANT
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a ...
ROBERT WYATT
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French...
JULIETTE BINOCHE
It is better to disbelieve an idea,than to have the spirit of unbelief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.
IMMANUEL KANT
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
ALEXANDER POPE
I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.
TONY SIRICO
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius
WILLIAM BLAKE
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.
ELLA LEYA
Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always anot...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy...
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We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what w...
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At some point, Jesper realized Kaz was gone.
"Not one for goodbyes, is he?" he muttered.
...
LEIGH BARDUGO
We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arr...
LEIGH BARDUGO
Everything is a negotiation with you, Brekker. You probably bartered your way out of the womb.
LEIGH BARDUGO
I've been nothing but kind to you. I'm not some sort of monster."
"No, you're the man who sits ...
LEIGH BARDUGO
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
IMMANUEL KANT
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built
IMMANUEL KANT
I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.
JACK FINNEY
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Cro...
JAMES P. HOGAN
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a str...
TOM WAITS
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
BILLY SUNDAY
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but co...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Concieving a child after treatment from doctors may involve using crooked means by one of the family...
APURVA GAGLANI
You are one hell of a kisser."
A sexy, crooked smile curved on his lips. "You inspire me.
LISA KESSLER
The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the ...
ANTHONY KIEDIS
The first inning was pretty important. Maybe that got us going a bit. It was nice to see the guys pu...
BRAD RADKE
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
WILLIAM MORRIS

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.
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Pero los escritores mienten, aun los más sinceros. Los menos hábiles, carentes de palabras y frase...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
MARGUERITE YOUNG
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in ...
MARGUERITE DURAS
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing d...
MARGUERITE DURAS
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what drea...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, ...
MARGUERITE DURAS
UND suggests dramatic changes quickly.
MARGUERITE COTTO
It did not seem realistic to do this amount of research into the program and not tell people that wa...
MARGUERITE COTTO
We tend to think of program closure as a last resort.
MARGUERITE COTTO
We have worked very hard to reduce expenses through all the units.
MARGUERITE COTTO
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
It was a very elegant line, the Royal Viking.
MARGUERITE DALIANES
I haven't counted how many times I've gone. Easily 40 or so times.
MARGUERITE DALIANES
This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do i...
MARGUERITE OSWALD
Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United Sta...
MARGUERITE OSWALD
We had a guy in our company -- this is what he does for a living -- fall for one. The guy was so con...
MARGUERITE FISCHER
I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole l...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
God bless pawnbrokers! They are quiet men
MARGUERITE WILKINSON
Justice moves very slowly, but it is nice to know that it does move.
MARGUERITE THOMAS
It's just a chance for people to get together and mingle and have a good time. And to tell the story...
MARGUERITE THOMAS
No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitud...
MARGUERITE THOMAS
Probably. But, I'm saying Sarah and her mother had problems to a much greater degree.
MARGUERITE SOWERSBY
She was obsessed with getting her nails done while we were selecting photos for memory boards at ser...
MARGUERITE SOWERSBY
One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, wit...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Bless...
LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
MARGUERITE GARDINER BLESSINGTON
I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his ho...
MARGUERITE OGDEN BIGELOW WILKINSON
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON
Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON
Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD
The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU
There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD
We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE
Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES
There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE
To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA
Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON