Crooked Quotes

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.