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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
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.
Karl Kraus
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Gloria Steinem
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
Willa Cather
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.
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.
George Herbert
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
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
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.
Christopher McDougall
Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.
Lita Ford
In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.
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.
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.
John Leguizamo
My shoe is off my foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.
Dr. Seuss
It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.
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.
Eugene Field
We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.
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.
Donald Barthelme
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.
John Steinbeck
So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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.
Paul A. Baran
Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
John Heywood
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