Shoe Quotes

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. (Muhammad Ali)
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. View quote
Carl Jung
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. View quote
Karl Kraus
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? View quote
Gloria Steinem
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one. View quote
Willa Cather
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.' View quote
Plutarch
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. View quote
Daniel Webster
For want of a nail, the shoe is lost for want of a shoe the horse is lost and for want of a horse the rider is lost. View quote
George Herbert
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury. View quote
Christopher McDougall
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. (Doug Larson)
Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe. View quote
Lita Ford
In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband. View quote
Mary Lou Retton
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. View quote
Matthew Stover
We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation. View quote
John Leguizamo
My shoe is off my foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold. View quote
Dr. Seuss
It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe- Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew. View quote
Eugene Field
We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope. View quote
Howard Dean
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. View quote
Donald Barthelme
Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler. (Robert Pattinson)
The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. View quote
John Steinbeck
So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set. View quote
Vanna White
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. View quote
Paul A. Baran
Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe? View quote
John Heywood