There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
Crooked wood is straightened with fire.
God writes on crooked lines.
There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.
She is like a road -- pretty, but crooked.
Crooked logs make straight fires.
It is easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.
My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every...
She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you.” She turned to the outer door.
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
These three take crooked ways: carts, boats, and musicians.
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
Presents make women affable, priests indulgent, and the law crooked.
When your fortune improves, the columns of your house appear to be crooked.
The crook will turn into a mule -- that the honest man will ride.
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
The gravity of the earth is so strong that the old grey man walks crooked.
He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house.
The dog's tail stays crooked even if he is buried for twelve years.
