Arguing Quote by Anonymous

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of…

— Charles Spurgeon

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

— Michel de Montaigne

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

— Jennifer Crusie

No matter how sturdy, erudite or judicious you may be; you can never straighten out what is crooked; neither can you count things that…

— Samuel Kermis

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

— John Locke

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

— Christie Watson

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an…

— Henry David Thoreau

I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves…

— Salman Rushdie

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

— Colin Powell

Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another…

— Sivananda

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

— Horace Mann