Cobblers Quotes

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

Swami Vivekananda

India, Cottages, Republic

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Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

S. D Gordon

Strong, Father, Men

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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

Michel de Montaigne

Soul, Mould, Emperor

Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.244

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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.

Frederick Locker-Lampson

Remember, Leather

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That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

Harvey Keitel

Shoes, Asking, Boots

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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Michel de Montaigne

War, Equality, Soul

"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
[Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]

Martial

Remember, Memento, Leather

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If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

Alexei Sayle

Cities, Charity, Littles

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Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.

W. H. Auden

Jobs, Work, Men

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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made,
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade,
The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd,
The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

Alexander Pope

Men, Rags, Gowns

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.221

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I've never met a very memorable cobbler.

Carson Cistulli

Memorable, Mets

"Assorted Fictions". Book by Carson Cistulli, 2006.

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... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

Plato

Opportunity, Government, Law

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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

Charles Lamb

Kings, Boys, Law

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

John Ford

Men, Clothes, Physicians

John Ford (1985). “The Lover's Melancholy”, p.66, Manchester University Press

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It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sarah Addison Allen

Fall, Autumn, Cinnamon

Sarah Addison Allen (2015). “First Frost”, p.2, St. Martin's Press

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...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese workers ... suffer from general ill-health and an excessive accumulation of unwholesome humors caused by their sedentary life ... so to some extent counteract the harm done by many days of sedentary life. On the association between chronic inactivity and poor health. Ramazzini urged that workers should at least exercise on holidays

Bernardino Ramazzini

Holiday, Exercise, Science

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Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

Nikki Giovanni

Quilts, Feet, Hands

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Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.

Ben Dreyfuss

Wall, Father, Usa

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All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

John Lennon

Kids, Writing, Artist

"The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 9), 2000.

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Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

Edna Ferber

Food, Soul, Cherries

Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.20, Booklassic

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A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

Socrates

Art, Children, Distance

Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, "Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl."

David Sedaris

Girl, Lying, Cutting

"Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls". Book by David Sedaris, April 23, 2013.

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Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

C. S. Lewis

Hurt, Government, Shoes

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

Charles Dickens

Summer, Ice, Mind

Charles Dickens (1842). “American Notes for General Circulation”, p.170

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There is no work better than another to please God: to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter [cobbler], or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishes and to preach is all one, as touching tho deed, to please God.

William Tyndale

Water, Touching, Deeds

"Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures".

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