Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.
To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.