Quotes with soft-shoe

Quotes 81 till 88 of 88.

• What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?

  ― Michelangelo
  Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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• When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

  ― William Butler Yeats
  Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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• When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

  ― Bo Schembechler
   
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• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  ― Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

  ― Algernon Sydney
  English politician (1623 - 1683)
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• You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

  ― Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

  ― Aaron Hill
  English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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• Soft words are hard arguments.

  ― Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• affectionate
• misfortune
• shoe-maker
• arguments
• adoption
• shadows

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