crook quotes

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. Theyare generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that theyalready have.

- SirThomas More
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

The IncomeTax return has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.

-Will Rogers
  The Illiterate Digest,'Helping the Girls withTheir Income Taxes'.