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I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment… — Horace Walpole
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. — Will Rogers
By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have… — Barack Obama
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So,… — Larry Elder
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook. — Groucho Marx
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. — Richard M. Nixon
Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but… — Hunter S. Thompson
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is… — William Wordsworth
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. — Lionel Shriver
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. — Douglas Adams
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the… — James Dean
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or… — Virginia Woolf
Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you,… — Christina Rossetti
How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and… — Alexander Shulgin
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,… — Ian Mcewan
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops. — Tom Clancy
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. — Dashiell Hammett
By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember — Homer
Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist.… — Truman Capote
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because… — Robertson Davies
Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering her open palm… — Peter S. Beagle
Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added. — Anthony Horowitz
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth… — Stephen Jay Gould
I remember," she said. "Lawrence Malley. He was an expert in security systems." "Aka Lightfinger Larry." Dan grinned. "He was also wanted in five states."… — Judy Blundell

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