“For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.”
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English politician 1554–1606Related quotes
“Straight down the Crooked Lane,
And all round the Square.”
A Plain Direction http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15652/15652-h/15652-h.htm#poem_135, st. 1.
1820s
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6.
Variant translations: Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Never a straight thing was made from the crooked timber of man.
Source: Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
“Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.”
“God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.”
The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 18 (15 September 1843)
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 66
" The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=266" (1934), st. 1
“To make more plans than an explorer or a crook, yet to be infected at the will's very root.”
The New Gods (1969)
Source: Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Einzelbänden