Top 125 Crutch Quotes & Sayings

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?

I’m not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement,” Trent said. “It’s a workday. Besides, she has a crutch.” “Crutch or no, she’s hurt!” Ceri protested. “I mean,” Trent said intently, “she can hit me with it if I do something she doesn’t like.

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.

You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

There's something nice and valuable and wonderful about the suspense and the classic horror that doesn't just crutch on blood and the almost pornographic view of fear.

We might depend on each other a bit too much and use that as a crutch, but it's not entirely a bad thing.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

Some people never do become a success and then start looking for a crutch.

If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

It's terrible, a crutch, isn't it?

If I want to put makeup on, then, cool, I'll do that. But it's not going to be my crutch.

I'm not a Christian because I need a crutch. Hey, I need a stretcher!

You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to make armor or break a car window. You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch but the best crutch I could have.

I never used gender as my crutch. Many women don't use gender as a crutch.

I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.

It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I despise research. I think it's a crutch.

Fitness really was my crutch.

When you say 'diversity,' the term has been denigrated over the years because it has been used as a crutch.

Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.

I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.

Technology can become a crutch. Sometimes it's there just to hide behind when you're shy of what you're trying to say.

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

My color's not a crutch. See, funny crosses a lot of color barriers.

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

For age with stealing steps Hath clawed me with his crutch

Injuries happen every season. We can't rely on that being a crutch. It's up to all of us to do our best to fill those voids as coaches and players.

God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.

Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

I try not to rely on pop culture references as a crutch for jokes, because then, I think, that's when the timelessness quality is lost.

A guru is not a crutch, he is a bridge.

My crutch was, in improvs, when in doubt, play insane, because you didn't have to excuse anything that came out of your mouth. It didn't have to make sense.

I didn't want to use anything as a crutch and ever have excuses heading into a match.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

My manager said, "Don't use liquor as a crutch!" I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk.

Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it.

Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.