Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.
Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.
In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.
I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook
I gazed into the mirror. . . There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
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.
I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Well, I'm not a crook.
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 does it, says I.
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot. . . but a crook must have brains.
I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
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 water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
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, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.
I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
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 doing.
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.
