(34 quotes found)
“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”
Aristophanes
“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
“The crab that walks too far falls into the pot”
Haitian Proverb
“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
“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
“Let us live my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men”
Catullus
“Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.”
Irish Proverb
“You'd be amazed how many people know Fuller Brush. They've never been hard to sell. I'd get a crab once in a while, but you get that with anything.”
Cy Honts
“We take lots of pride in putting lots of crab in our soup here. This is premium, large, jumbo, blue crab from the Chesapeake Bay.”
Craig Scott
“Currently, the green crab is viewed only as a pest species, ... The crab tends to eat what we eat. It's incredibly tough. And generally speaking, its presence in the water means fewer clams and lobsters. So, we'd like to turn around these negatives and make them into a positive.”
Bill Walton
