“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”
Aristophanes
“Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.”
Irish Proverb
“The crab that walks too far falls into the pot”
Haitian Proverb
“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns”
John Milton
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare”
William Shakespeare
“Let us live my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men”
Catullus
