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Shoemaking Quotes
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A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song; So shall the fair your handiwork peruse, Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound. (Quote by - Edward Moore)
A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When bootes and shoes are torn up to the lefts, Cobblers must thrust their awls up to the hefts. (Quote by - Nathaniel Ward)
Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights, And I trow The damsel, deftly shod, Has dutifully trod Until now. (Quote by - Frederick Locker-Lampson)
A cobbler, produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. (Quote by - Frederick Locker-Lampson)
Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin For her feet? You lucky little kid, You perished, so you did, For my sweet. (Quote by - Frederick Locker-Lampson)
The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams, And it shows That Pixies were the wags Who tipped these funny tags And these toes. (Quote by - Frederick Locker-Lampson)
When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)