A Quote by Aristophanes

You cannot make a crab walk straight. — © Aristophanes
You cannot make a crab walk straight.

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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
You will never make the crab walk straight.
Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with crab cracker, cocktail fork and a plastic bib for protection?
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.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.
When I broke my leg in college my first year, they were worried that I wouldn't walk straight again. In fact, I'm pretty pigeon-toed, and most people think I don't walk straight anyway.
Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.
I once fell in love with a crab on the beach. It was called crab.
When I think of 'Instagram models,' I say you have to take baby steps. You cannot just walk straight onto the runway.
There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.
Some versions of crab cakes are mostly crabmeat lightly bound with egg, but I'm a firm believer that a crab cake should contain bread crumbs.
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.
As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.
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