A Month of Shoe Quotes

Creative Shoes

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.

--Toni Bentley

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

--Mickey Mouse

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

--John Updike

Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!

--George Luks

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

--H. L. Mencken

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

--Oprah Winfrey

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.

--George Bernard Shaw

If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.

--Robert N. Coons

If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

--Herbert V. Prochnow

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

--Ambrose Bierce

My shoes are special . . . shoes for discerning feet.

--Manolo Blahnik

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

--Charles Caleb Colton

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

--Zora Neale Hurston

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

--Doug Larson

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

--Arthur Miller

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond-buckled shoe.

--Aileen Mehle

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

--John Coltrane

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

--Publilius Syrus

As the old Czech proverb has it, `Sweaty feet seldom come singly.'

--Bertolt Brecht

I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

--Billy Crystal

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

--Robert F. Goheen

If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

--Abigail Van Buren

If you work real hard and keep both feet on the ground, you'll eventually reach a point at which you'll be able to put both feet on a desk.

--Myron Cohen

Putting your best foot forward at least keeps it out of your mouth.

--Morris Mandel

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.

--Arthur K. Watson

Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

--Charles Dickens

Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.

--Robert Orben

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

--P. K. Shaw

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.

--Helena Petrova Blavatsky

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

--Samuel Beckett

Anyone with more than 365 pair of shoes is a pig.

--Barbara Melser Lieberman