“He takes the crooked path of the unrighteous way; leaving the straight and narrow path, he weaves his way backwards.”
Atharva Veda
“Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity”
Edward Everett Hale
“What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked.”
Elbert Hubbard
“There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.”
Ronald Biggs
“He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.”
Bible
“You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”
W. C. Fields
