Old Shoes Quotes

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Thoughtful, Shoes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Shoes, Feet

  "Maxims". 596,

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• To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't.

  Michael Josephson

  Men, Feet, New Shoes

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• A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

  Christian Louboutin

  Moving, Shoes, Design

  "The GQA: Sole Talk with Christian Louboutin". Interview with Matt Sebra, www.gq.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Shoes, Long, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

  Robert Breault

  Shoes, Comfort, Belief

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• I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

  Harrison Ford

  Fashion, Thinking, Shoes

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• A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

  Willa Cather

  Shoes, Matter, Rooms

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.59, U of Nebraska Press

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• An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Shoes, Lovers, Lovers Love

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• Every old sock meets an old shoe

  Kate Bush

  Shoes, Sock

  Song: Moments Of Pleasure, Album: The Red Shoes, 1993

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• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Fashion, Women, High Heels

  "Her Inspiration: Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful, and Have Fun". Book by Mina Parker, 2008.

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• I'm like old shoes, I've never been hip.

  Harrison Ford

  Shoes, Hips

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• A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

  Alex Flinn

  Shoes, Psychology, Individuality

  Alex Flinn (2011). “Cloaked”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Shoes, Danger

  William Shakespeare, David Daniell (1998). “Julius Caesar: Third Series”, p.158, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Shoes, Icons

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• Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

  John Selden

  Friendship, Kings, Real

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Friends'

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• All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Taken, Simple, Shoes

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• And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Good Luck, Shoes

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.511, Delphi Classics

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• You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Real, Thinking

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• Throw false spirituality away like a pair of old shoes.

  Kyongho

  Shoes, Pairs, Spirituality

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• Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

  Lita Ford

  Attitude, High Heels, Shoes

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• A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Beer, Science

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.68, Library of America

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• Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

  Gene Hill

  Dog, Nature, Silly

  Gene Hill (2013). “A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  New Shoes, Old Friends, Supportive

  Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Unbearable Lightness of Scones”, p.37, Anchor

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