Shoemaking Quotes

“A chaque pied son soulier.”

“Ne supra crepidam judicaret.”

“The wearer knows where the shoe wrings.”

“I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.”

“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”

“You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.”

“Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.”

“The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.”

“A careless shoe string, in whose tie
I see a wilde civility.”

“Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te urgeret.”

“But from the hoop's bewitching round,
Her very shoe has power to wound.”

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“When bootes and shoes are torne up to the lefts,
Coblers must thrust their awles up to the hefts.”

“What trade are you?
Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler.”

“Quand nous veoyons un homme mal chaussé, nous disons que ce n'est pas merveille, s'il est chaussetier.”

“The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.”

“Thou art a cobbler, art thou?
Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: * * * I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes.”

“Oh, where did hunter win
So delicate a skin
For her feet?
You lucky little kid,
You perished, so you did,
For my sweet.”

“A cobbler, * * * produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.”