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

  Martha Beck

  Nature, Path, Infinite Possibilities

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

  John Lyly

  Roots, Tree

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.242, Manchester University Press

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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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• All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Circles, Truth Is

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Littles, Never Trust

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

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• To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, May, Faces

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.510, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light.
  Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light.
  Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Light, Purpose

  Allen Ginsberg (1963). “Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960: Pocket Poets Number 18”, p.62, City Lights Books

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• If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.

  Dana Cowin

  Struggle, Apples, Looks

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

  George Herbert

  Shadow, Ifs

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

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

  Jack Steinberger

  Noses, Faces, Hateful

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• 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.

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  Honesty, Smart, Stupid

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• 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.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Dream, Morning

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• If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

  Giordano Bruno

  Buttons, Coats, Firsts

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