Quotes with shoe-maker

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  • Horace A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Plutarch 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
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Bill Bailey And the thing is, I'm amazed they went with Obama at all, you know, I mean, I thought Hilary would have been a shoe-in, but no. Apparently America's got an issue with gender, not with race. Huh. So, um...
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg CHICAGO: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Tim O'Brien Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
    Tomcat in Love (2011) 319
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Sir Richard Steele Every man is the maker of his own fortune.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Iris Murdoch Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Benjamin Franklin For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World,
    Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
    Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
    Stormy, husky, brawling,
    City of the Big Shoulders.
    Chicago (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Winston Churchill I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Winston Churchill I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • John Bunyan I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Buzz Osborne I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Horace If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Gloria Steinem If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Adrienne Gusoff If the shoe fits, it's too expensive.
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