Crooked Quote by Socrates Download Open image “You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crooked Knows Lines Next
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line which will be the shortest line… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked. — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid. — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both a lawyer… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
