"What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same."
Read quote
10 likes
Shoes quotes
Shoes
1.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Shoes
Browse quotes that often appear alongside shoes — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Shoes quotes (page 7 of 76)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."
Read quote
10 likes
"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
Read quote
10 likes
"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
Read quote
9 likes
"You can do anything, but lay off my blue suede shoes"
Read quote
9 likes
"Women need food, water, and compliments That's right. And an occasional pair of shoes."
Read quote
9 likes
"I also love visiting the malls but not to do shopping. The only things I enjoy shopping are clothes and shoes. I have many pairs of shoes"
Read quote
9 likes
"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."
Read quote
9 likes
"A girl's just as hot as the shoes she choose"
Read quote
9 likes
"Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he’s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties."
Read quote
9 likes
"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."
Read quote
9 likes
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"
Read quote
8 likes
"Putting the shoe on the wrong foot."
Read quote
8 likes
"I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes."
Read quote
8 likes
"Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated."
Read quote
8 likes
"I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy."
Read quote
8 likes
"If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that."
Read quote
8 likes
"A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation."
Read quote
8 likes
"You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a secret to it, it's no big deal. Before I go out, I put a slice of bologna in each of my shoes. So when I'm on stage, I feel funny."
Read quote
8 likes
"I actually have a closet that's all shoes, maybe 700 pairs."
Read quote
8 likes