A Quote by Franz Grillparzer
Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.
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Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.
Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.
I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
That's proof right there that men and women are on different levels because men can watch two women together and that's a turn-on. It doesn't work the same way for us, does it, ladies? No, uh-uh - it doesn't work the same. You ask any woman in here her sexual fantasy, and I will bet you a million dollars that it's NOT to go home and catch your man bent over with some big, burly guy standing behind him.
I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.
A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.
Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.
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