Old Shoes Quotes - Page 2

• If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Shoes, Optimism, Anxiety

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.148, Courier Corporation

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• We look so very different from the way we sound. It’s a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you’re forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dislodged from the old shoe of yourself.

  Elizabeth Hay

  Thinking, Shoes, Voice

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• You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

  Allan Sherman

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Nice

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

  Soyen Shaku

  Sleep, Shoes, Lasts

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• If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

  Gloria Steinem

  Change, Shoes, Feet

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.882, Open Road Media

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• In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

  Edward Hoagland

  Dog, Nature, Silly

  Edward Hoagland (1976). “Red Wolves and Black Bears”, Random House Incorporated

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• A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Shoes, Evil

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.97, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I would be happy naked as long as I'm wearing fabulous shoes.

  Anna Dello Russo

  Fashion, Shoes, Long

  "Is this the new Imelda Marcos? Anna Dello Russo has 4,000 pairs of shoes and a separate apartment for her clothes" by Lauren Paxman, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 04, 2011.

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• I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

  Nina Bawden

  Husband, Shoes, Track

  "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Memories, Men, Jewels

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• There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Family, Cousin, Aunt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Shoes, Rivers, Floating

  "Death, Taxes and Mrs. Clinton". www.wsj.com. November 30, 2007.

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• The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

  Groucho Marx

  Simple, Shoes, Alps

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• It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Mother, Children, Dad

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