That which is crooked cannot be made straight and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.