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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service

Ahead, Mountain, Sand

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali

Ahead, Mountains, Wear

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

Person, Living, Another

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo

Beautiful, Cannot, Fact

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

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.
Amy Adams

Work, Good, Girl

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

Spring, Full, Whistling

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace

Him, Small, Story

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace

Small, Feet, Whose

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
Imelda Marcos

Love, Time, Great

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

Love, Hurt, Fall

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.
Lita Ford

Attitude, Opposed

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.
Christian Louboutin

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
Publilius Syrus

Same, Cannot, Put

There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.
Jessica Simpson

Important, Different, Perfect

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

Old, Matter, Shabby

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
Flip Wilson

Birthday, Teacher, School

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
Kanye West

Design, Heart, Giving

If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
Queen Latifah

Perfect, Big, Kids

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.
Paula Poundstone

Life, Humor, Someone

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'
Sheryl Swoopes

Thinking, After, Grow

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
Karl Kraus

Woman, Sun, Whole

I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.
Christian Louboutin

Someone, Said, High

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

Change, Fit, Foot

If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out.
Craig Bruce

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
Ayelet Waldman

Failure, Father, Real

Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.
Fergie

Business, Past, Find

I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.
Fergie

Change, Great, Woman

I'm just not a shoe girl.
Jennifer Hudson

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
Christian Louboutin

Music, Attitude, Mean

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