“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”
Stephen King book The Gunslinger
Source: The Gunslinger
“You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”
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“Straight down the Crooked Lane,
And all round the Square.”
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“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
Immanuel Kant book Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
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.”
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“God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.”
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The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 18 (15 September 1843)
“For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.”
P. 311 http://books.google.com/books?id=3xRbAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;for+experience+teacheth+me+that+straight+trees+have+crooked+roots&quot;&pg=PA311#v=onepage <br class="br">Euphues and his England