“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius”
William Blake
“You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”
W. C. Fields
“What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.”
Ronald Biggs
“There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.”
William Osler
“He takes the crooked path of the unrighteous way; leaving the straight and narrow path, he weaves his way backwards.”
Atharva Veda
“That which is crooked cannot be made straight and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.”
Ecclesiastes
