(649 quotes found)
“You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”
W. C. Fields
“As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.”
Buddha
“Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself”
Charles Manson
“Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.”
Chanakya
“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”
Dr. Seuss
“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”
“Manfred: Let's get something straight, ok? There's no "we". There never was a "we". In fact, without "me", it wouldn't even be a "you".”
Ice Age
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius”
William Blake
“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”
Dante Alighieri
