Shoe Quotes
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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
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More Shoe Quotes
" many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."
paul a. baran— Chapter Four, Standstill and Movement Under Monopoly Capitalism, II, p. 84
"We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope."
howard dean— From his official declaration of candidacy, June 23, 2003
There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot isguilty.
Samuel Beckett— 1955 Waiting for Godot, act1.
Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot Into a left-hand shoe.
— 1871Through the Looking-Glass, ch.8,'It's My Own Invention'.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew.
Eugene Field— 1889 'Wynken, Blynken, and Nod'.
Shehad the rippling muscles of a panther, thesolidityof a water buffalo, and the lazy insolence of a shoe salesman.
— 1944 Crazy Like a Fox,'Kitchen Bouquet'.
But from the hoop’s bewitching round,Her very shoe has power to wound.
edward moore— The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?
Peggy Noonan— "Death, Taxes and Mrs. Clinton" in The Wall Street Journal (30 November 2007)
I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.
matthew stover— (0.8) Del Rey, p. 23
The Jews I knew growing up didn't do "do-it-yourself." When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
ayelet waldman—
Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.
Daniel Webster— On the Old Man of the Mountain.
Trinny is definitely a hoarder. Her shoe cupboard is open and I lose count when I reach 78.
trinny woodall— Fiona Neill in "Retail therapists" in The Times (14 July 2007)
“How does one conquer fear, Don B.?” “One takes a frog and sews it to one’s shoe,” he said. “The left or the right?” Don B. gave me a pitying look. “Well, you’d look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn’t you?" he said. “One frog on each shoe.”
Donald Barthelme— “The Teachings of Don B.: A Yankee Way of Knowledge”, pp. 7–8
Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow; Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.
— Canto I, line 221.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
carl jung— p. 69 (Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933))
A prostitute was forgiven by Allah, because, passing by a panting dog near a well and seeing that the dog was about to die of thirst, she took off her shoe, and tying it with her head-cover she drew out some water for it. So, Allah forgave her because of that.
— Bukhari 4:538 This is an extraordinary hadith, because following the Sunnah of Muhammad (peace be upon him), prostitutes can be extremely despised figures among most Muslims, yet it expresses the idea that even someone working in one of the most despised of professions, in showing mercy to an animal, can merit the forgiveness of Allah, and the wise.
“It is no hardship whatever,” said Aillas. “You have never strained at the deed. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly you find the idea incredible. Do you not sense a taint of unreality?”
jack vance— Chapter 13, section 3 (p. 571)
It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it is the grain of sand in your shoe.
— By Robert Service quoted in p.30 (Sand: The Never-ending Story)
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
— By Robert Sinclair in p. 115 (1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out When You're Stuck in a Moment (and Can't Get Out of It!))
Dwight L. Moody was changed from a shoe salesman into an evangelist whose influence has reached around the world. In all parts of the earth are men and women whose characters were transformed as a direct result of contact with the changed Moody.
— p.37 (Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920))
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Miguel de Cervantes— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part I, Chapter IV.
* * * And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."
— Plutarch, Lives, Volume II. Life of Æmilius Paulus.
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
publilius syrus— Syrus, Maxims, 596. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
— Proverb reported by George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651), #495
The shoe that fits one person pinches another.
carl jung— Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."
— Plutarch, Lives, "Aemilius Paulus", sec. 29
A prostitute was forgiven by Allah, because, passing by a panting dog near a well and seeing that the dog was about to die of thirst, she took off her shoe, and tying it with her head-cover she drew out some water for it. So, Allah forgave her because of that.
— Bukhari 4:538 This is an extraordinary hadith, because following the Sunnah of Muhammad (peace be upon him), prostitutes can be extremely despised figures among most Muslims, yet it expresses the idea that even someone working in one of the most despised of professions, in showing mercy to an animal, can merit the forgiveness of Allah, and the wise.
