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«You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.»
Author: W. C. Fields (Actor, Comic) | Keywords: crooked, stick, straight, turns
«What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end»
Author: Jean Paul Richter (Novelist) | About: Mystery | Keywords: crooked, puzzled, straighter
«The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle»
«When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; / Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: / To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; / Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; / Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; / Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: / To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; / Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.»
«The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked.»
«The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till th»
«The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.»
«When the light is crooked, the shadow is crooked»

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