Top 70 Quotes About Crabs: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Crabs

#1. I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.

#2. Those less fortunate eat dried fish while the truly destitute fight with the spiny shells of crabs or lobsters. Decades later, my father will find it incomprehensible that Americans crave what in his childhood was considered repugnant fare.

Nayomi Munaweera

#3. Once they were men. Now they are land crabs.

Roger Corman

#4. Feeling like a fool, he went to convince Jane to water her crabs.

Virginia Kantra

#5. The weirdest place I ever actually woke up in was a villa on the beach in Mexico. It was burning hot, and there were all these crabs walking around me. But I was feeling good, so I went with the vibe.

Nayvadius Cash

#6. There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

H.L. Mencken

#7. You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.

Winfield Scott

#8. But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

Lawrence Durrell

#9. Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don't care, and are all friends. It is very unkind to treat you so.

Louisa May Alcott

#10. And may your crotches be infested with the crabs of a thousand whores.

Georgia Cates

#11. Fish in another man's pond and you will catch crabs.

Habeeb Akande

#12. It's always weird when I meet people who don't know how to crack crabs open and eat them the right way. I take a lot of pride in my crab-eating ability.

Eric Hutchinson

#13. Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think.

Jose Andres

#14. I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

Martha Stewart

#15. Crabs, crabs, crabs. Crabs the size of beach donkeys.

Guy N. Smith

#16. I figured, what harm could come from a little bit of fun? Crabs. The Canadian girl gave me crabs.

S.A. Tawks

#17. Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#18. We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

Graeme Le Saux

#19. we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out.

Marcus Garvey

#20. Those who wake at this hour feel a lonely separation from everyone but night birds and ghost crabs, never imagining the legion of kindred souls scattered in the darkness, who stare at ceilings and pace floors and look out windows and covet and worry and mourn.

Kathy Hepinstall

#21. Bear, I think having sand in your butt crack must be really uncomfortable. Maybe you should go change your clothes. You don't want to catch sand crabs. What's the point of getting crabs when you weren't having any fun doing it?

T.J. Klune

#22. I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.

Jack Ma

#23. My girlfriend has crabs, I bought her fishnet stockings.

Jay London

#24. Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

Lu Xun

#25. Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not

Caryl Ann Casbon

#26. Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

Edward Abbey

#27. I wouldn't go around telling people about these shocks of yours."
"Why not?" Lex asked.
"It's like announcing to the would you have crabs. It's embarrassing, and no one'll ever shake your hand again.

Gina Damico

#28. That is their happiness: they see all life without observing it. They're buried in it like crabs in mud. Except men, of course. I am not in a mood, just yet, to talk of men.

John Gardner

#29. The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

Paul Fleischman

#30. There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.

Thomas Gibson

#31. Under the sea, the merman feast on starfish soup and all the serving men are crabs.

George R R Martin

#32. Well, listen, sweetheart. Boys only want one thing, of course, and guess what that means for you? Heartbreak. Pregnancy. Chlamydia, herpes, syphilis, crabs.
That's beautiful, Dad. You should set it to music.

Kristan Higgins

#33. Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies. Instead of thinking about the sex, I'd always think about the clap and the crabs those people have.

George Carlin

#34. In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Deborah Levy

#35. In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory
horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene
and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#36. Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them.

George R R Martin

#37. I have crabs!
I didn't want to tell you, but since we had sex,
it's only a matter of time before those critters get you too.
Fuck, I've missed you.

Aly Martinez

#38. In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun.

Jimmy Fallon

#39. In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.

Paul Watson

#40. We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

Kanye West

#41. There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

John Hay

#42. Dude, you've been fingering that box in your pocket all this time? I thought you had crabs or something. I was going to let you borrow my cream.

Tara Sivec

#43. He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

Andrew Jackson Downing

#44. The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of your guests with crab crackers or crab hammers, cocktail forks, and plenty of napkins.

Tom Douglas

#45. In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

H.L. Mencken

#46. Lobsters, snails, crabs, clams, squids, slugs, and members of the European royal families, by contrast, have blue blood, due to the fact that it's based on copper rather than iron.

Alan Bradley

#47. You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

C.S. Lewis

#48. You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in. -Hardy

Lisa Kleypas

#49. Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.

Phil Robertson

#50. New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

Jim Himes

#51. Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

Michelle Malkin

#52. Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.

Bill Maher

#53. I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, 'Where has this been all my life?' One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs.

Nora Ephron

#54. I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.

Demetri Martin

#55. A young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

Steve Martin

#56. Crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you

George R R Martin

#57. It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

Edward Goldsmith

#58. Many love stories are like the shells of hermit crabs, though others are more like chambered nautiluses, whose architecture grows with the inhabitant and whose abandoned smaller chambers are lighter than water and let them float in the sea.

Rebecca Solnit

#59. So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

Patti LaBelle

#60. There's something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while they're in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder they're called crabs.

Jen Sincero

#61. He stopped, though, after we gave him crabs." "You infected your father with a disease?" "Not those kinds of crabs." He rolled his eyes. "We filled his expensive BMW with real ones. Turns out they're rough on leather.

Eve Langlais

#62. The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

Laurie Colwin

#63. People think hermit crabs are cute, but I can't think of anything creepier. Some dead thing's shell, with legs poking out of it. Scuttling. Feeding on corpses. Living in a borrowed skin of death.

Nick Lake