Crabbed Quotes

13 quotes by 10 authors

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as… — Thomas Carlyle
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. — Lord Kelvin
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have… — Edward Dahlberg
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… — John Milton
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto… — Samuel Rutherford
Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized… — Henry David Thoreau
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits… — Henry David Thoreau
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care. — William Shakespeare
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;… — William Shakespeare
I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful… — Stephen R. Lawhead
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed… — John Fowles
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his… — Frederick Pollock
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;… — William Shakespeare

Who Wrote These Crabbed Quotes

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