Crooked Quotes

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

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Adventure

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

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• Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

  Immanuel Kant

  Humanity, Made, Timber

  "Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose" by Immanuel Kant, (Proposition 6), 1784.

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Respect, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Jail

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.72, Taylor Trade Publications

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• You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

  Socrates

  Lines, Next, Knows

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• Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

  Dallas Willard

  Thinking, Evil, Favors

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.84, Tyndale House

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• The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

  Robert Towne

  Progress, Genius, Thee

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• You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

  Martha Beck

  Nature, Path, Infinite Possibilities

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• Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rivers, Path

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Freethinker

  "The Very Best of Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes from a Great Thinker" by David Graham, (p. 4), September 22, 2014.

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Understanding, Gone, World

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• You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

  W. H. Auden

  Heart, Neighbour

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.76, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wall, Thinking, Self

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

  John Dryden

  Sight, Water, Seems

  John Dryden (1985). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reform, Way, Sticks

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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

  James P. Hogan

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  James P. Hogan (2007). “The Two Worlds”, p.360, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Morning, Liberty, Pants

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love You, Responsibility, Watches

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• 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.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Distance, Two, Unification Church

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• No public man can be just a little crooked.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Littles, Crooked Politicians

  Herbert Hoover (1955). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955”

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Way, Path

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• 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.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mother, Children

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

  W. C. Fields

  Trust, Water, Alcohol

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

  Erma Bombeck

  Motivation, Women, Sleep

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• 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.

  Steve Allen

  Government, Balance, Mafia

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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