You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.
You will never make the crab walk straight.
People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.
I once fell in love with a crab on the beach. It was called crab.
The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.
We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat.
The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.
Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
I was being chased by a giant crab. That's not funny.
There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.
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