Old Shoe Sayings

#1. An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

Theodore Sturgeon

#2. When I embraced the rock hat, when I put it on two or three years ago, when I realized I'm gonna go and make really focused rock albums, it felt like wearing an old shoe. It was a perfect fit.

Glenn Hughes

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Robert Breault

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

Charles Spurgeon

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

Willa Cather

#7. 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

#8. Even if the shoe fits, that doesn't mean I'm going to wear it; I don't want to wear somebody else's smelly old shoe. I'd rather go barefoot.

Toni Sorenson

#9. I ever get out of here," I said over the noise of my enemy hitting the far wall with shattering force, "I will personally beat Clyde Clary to death with nothing but an old shoe.

Robert J. Crane

#10. Matter how sharp the corner they turned or how deep the pothole they plunged into, Ghastly and Tanith remained perfectly still. Fletcher, on the other hand, was being thrown about like an old shoe in a washing machine, and he did not appreciate it.

Derek Landy

#11. Every old sock meets an old shoe

Kate Bush

#12. 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

#13. Do not put everybody's foot into your old shoe; it might not be suitable for everyone.

Kamaran Ihsan Salih

#14. 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

#15. I dread no more the first white in my hair,
Or even age itself, the easy shoe,
The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:
Time, doing this to me, may alter too
My anguish, into something I can bear

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#16. The horse-shoe nail. Remember the old poem? 'For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of the shoe the horse was lost. For want of the horse the rider was lost. For want -

Philip K. Dick

#17. The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.

Patti Davis

#18. Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.

George Burns

#19. I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

Beatrix Potter

#20. There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

Sam Levenson

#21. Are you like an enchanted thing? A damn story where some girl lets a warty old toad sleep in her shoe and in the mornin the toad's a good-lookin dude makin omelettes?

Annie Proulx

#22. The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?'

Jochen Zeitz

#23. One way or the other , the case coming before a federal judge in Miami July 2 challenging Florida's 6-year-old constitutional ban on same-sex marriages could be the next shoe to drop.

Anonymous

#24. I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.

Allan Gurganus

#25. Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker's last. And in this same last or shoe, that old woman of the nursery tale with the swarming brood, might very comfortably be lodged, she and all her progeny.

Herman Melville

#26. I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

Bernie Mac

#27. 8819Passers-by,
Out of your many faces
Flash memories to me
Now at the day end
Away from the sidewalks
Where your shoe soles traveled
And your voices rose and blent
To form the city's afternoon roar
Hindering an old silence.

Carl Sandburg

#28. I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

Neal Shusterman

#29. Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

Peter Tork

#30. Because you're going to help me train a seven-year-old Witch who's got the raw power right now to turn us both into dust and yet" - he dropped the shoe onto the chair - "is abysmal at basic Craft.

Anne Bishop

#31. I don't trust you with my shoe; I wouldn't trust you with an old pair of socks.

Kim Richards

#32. But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before.

J.P. Delaney

#33. There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids ... her uterus fell out!

Andrew Dice Clay