Top 329 Crooked Quotes & Sayings

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

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

La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

The last time I saw that crooked stupid smile on your face, I got-a-so mad, but then I realized...that crooked stupid smile is there all the time.

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

This [2016] election is also about, so importantly to me, African-American and Hispanic-American people whose communities have been plunged into crime, poverty and failing schools by the policies of crooked Hillary Clinton. Believe me, she's crooked.

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

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

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

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

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

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

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.

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.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.

A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy. Swimming hath helped to make them so, but only because thou hast had the will to do it. Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

I'm not crooked, and I want to help people.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

The straight path must sometimes be crooked.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

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

I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!

You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.

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

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

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

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

It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away.

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

Don't think because I'm a positive dude, I'm going to always say something nice. If you come at me crooked, one too many times or if too many people came at me crooked too many times in a row, then they're going to get it. I don't always exercise that self control and I don't regret it either.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

Keeping Crooked Hillary Clinton out of the White House!

Try not to make a straight line crooked.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

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

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.

I felt like it was something that didn't represent how I wanted to present myself. Now I'll see kids I come across on Twitter or Comic-Con, and they'll smile and I'll be like, "You have a crooked mouth like I have a crooked mouth!" We just sit there, and I talk about it with them and they feel better about themselves.

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

A crooked log makes a strait fire.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face