Quotes on Old 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.