toe quotes

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

- Bert Lance
  Of the Bert Lance Toe Test which he devised for his nine months in the Carter administration. In the Washington Post, 6 Oct. US  newspaper  columnist  and 'agony  aunt',  who  offered  advice and information on  topics  such  as  family  life,  marriage,  social issues and health.

It asks more steadiness, self-control, ay, and manly courage, than any other exercise.You must take as well as giveeye to eye, toe to toe, and arm to arm.

- Sir Robert Peel
Of boxing. Quoted inJohn Boyle O'Reilly Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport (1888).

Mary Poppins looked down at her feet and rubbed the toe of one shoe along the pavement two or three times. Then she smiled at the shoe in such a way that the shoe knew quite well that the smile wasn't meant for it.

- P(amela) L(yndon) Travers
  Mary Poppins, ch.2.