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

  6 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  5 Copiar cita

• 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). "El don de la risa: la autobiografía de Allan Sherman".

  50 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  16 Copiar cita

• Si el zapato no encaja, ¿hay que cambiar el pie?

  Gloria Steinem

  Change, Shoes, Feet

  Gloria Steinem (2017). "Pasión, política y activismo cotidiano: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within", p.882, Open Road Media.

  16 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Para disfrutar realmente de un perro, uno no se limita a intentar adiestrarlo para que sea semihumano. Se trata de abrirse a la posibilidad de ser en parte perro.

  Edward Hoagland

  Perro, Naturaleza, Tonto

  Edward Hoagland (1976). "Lobos rojos y osos negros", Random House Incorporated

  63 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Un temperamento enérgico no es del todo malo. Los hombres que son fáciles como un zapato viejo son generalmente de poco valor.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hombres, Zapatos, Mal

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

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Sería feliz desnuda siempre que llevara unos zapatos fabulosos.

  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.

  38 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  5 Copiar cita

• 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

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  13 Copiar cita

• 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

  Madre, Hijos, Papá

  4 Copiar cita