An old ox makes a straight furrow. [ Proverb ]

A crooked log makes a straight fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You can't be lost on a straight road. [ Proverb ]

A straight stick is crooked in the water. [ Proverb ]

That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again. [ Jul. Caes ]

The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy, we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells. [ Cowper ]

If the staff be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight. [ Anonymous ]

Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.. [ Proverb ]

Under this sod, beneath these trees,
Lyeth the pod of Solomon Pease.
Pease is not here, but only his pod,
He shelled out his soul, which went straight to his God. [ An old American epitaph ]

Many make straight things crooked, but few the contrary. [ Proverb ]

To be rich be diligent; move on
Like heavens great movers that enrich the earth;
Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
Rich are the diligent who can command Time - nature's stock. [ Davenant ]

A straight line is the shortest in morals as well as in geometry. [ Rahel ]

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced. [ Whipple ]

No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight. [ Bacon ]

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. [ Tillotson ]

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world. [ Mrs. E. B. Browning ]

In this state she gallops, night by night, over ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream. [ William Shakespeare ]

If you bethink yourself of any crime unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace, solicit for it straight. [ William Shakespeare ]

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life. [ Bishop Beveridge ]

I only look straight before me at each day as it comes, and do what is nearest me, without looking further afield. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.

Integrity is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last longest. [ Tillotson ]

The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked; weaklings must lie. [ Richter ]

A beginner should study the raciest, strongest, best spoken speech, and let the printed speech alone. Write straight from the thought, without bothering about the manner. [ William D. Howells, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]

When the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift - no steady wind in its sails, no thoughtful pilot directing its course - he steps on board, takes the helm and steers straight for the maelstrom. [ Holmes ]

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence. [ Spurgeon ]

All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her. [ Helps ]