Old Shoes Quotes

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.

Throw false spirituality away like a pair of old shoes.

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

Every old sock meets an old shoe

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

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.

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

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

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"?

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.