Crabs Quotes

• You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

  Aristophanes

  Teacher, Teach, Walks

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• Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

  Bill Meyer

  Inspiring, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

  Pythagoras

  Sea, Wit, Streams

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Missing You, Ocean, Men

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• 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.

  Patti LaBelle

  Party, Years, Shoes

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• You will never make the crab walk straight.

  Aristophanes

  Walks

  Aristophanes (2012). “Peace”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

  Cody Wilson

  Men, People, Sideways

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• 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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fate, Moon, Oysters

  "The 48 Laws of Power". Book by Robert Greene ( p. 33), 2000.

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• I once fell in love with a crab on the beach. It was called crab.

  Dougie Poynter

  Beach

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• The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Numbers, People

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• We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

  Kanye West

  Race, Oxford, Ants

  Guest Lecture at Oxford University, www.vulture.com. March 2, 2015.

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• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Fifty, May

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• 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.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Nature, Children, Bending Down

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat.

  Woody Allen

  Meat, Use, Want

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• 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.

  William James

  Science, Apology, Unique

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dresses, Belief, Seaweed

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• We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Beach, Young, Seaweed

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Sea, Land

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• The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

  Steven Pressfield

  Buckets, Leap, Treason

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• It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Food, Hockey, Ice Cream

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Darkness, Wickedness

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Anton Chekhov

  Numbers, People, Trying

  "The Man in a Case". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• I was being chased by a giant crab. That's not funny.

  Dane Cook

  Laughing, Giants, Audience

  "Harmful If Swallowed", 2003.

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• There is an animal inside me,
  clutching fast to my heart,
  a huge crab.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Animal, Huge

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• 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.

  Jack Spicer

  Loneliness, Writing, Heart

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