| Author |
Quotes |
| Agesilaus | To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot." |
| Edward Moore | But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound. |
| Edward Moore | Shoemaker, stick to your last. |
| Giuseppe Giusti | I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon; If with an axe I seem cut out, The workman was no cobbling clown; A good jack boot with double sole he made, To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade. |
| Giuseppe Giusti | Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you, You shall no more be called shoemakers. But you and yours to the world's end Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft. |
| Jan Van Ryswick | Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town, Had earned a living ever. His work was strong and clean and fine, And none who served at Crispin's shrine Was at his trade more clever. |
| Michael Eyquen de Montaigne | When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. |
| Michael Eyquen de Montaigne | To each foot its own shoe. |
| Oscar H Harpel | As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees, Stitching patches, or pegging on soles as he sang, Out of tune, ancient catches and glees. |
| Plutarch | And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me." |
| Robert Herrick | A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. |
| William Hazlitt | One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason, because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world. - William Hazlitt, |
| William Hazlitt | The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. |
| George Herbert | The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. |
| Joseph Addison | A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. |
| Robert Burton | Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself. |
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