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crab

«You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.»
Author: Aristophanes | Keywords: crab, crabbed, crabs
«The crab that walks too far falls into the pot»
Author: Haitian Proverb | Keywords: crab, crabbed, crabs
«Let us live my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men»
Author: Catullus | Keywords: crab, crabbed, crabs, farthing, farthings
«A crab does not give birth to a bird»
«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.»
«Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.»
Author: Irish Proverb | Keywords: crab, crabbed, crabs, My Son
«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»
«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»