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A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention,
having been used to cut faces for many years together over his
last.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Spectator", no. 173
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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."
Author: Agesilaus, the Great
Source: Laconic Apophthegemns
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Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 34), (ed. 1887)
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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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 751)
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, ch. IV)
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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Greatness
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If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in
what part it pinched you.
[Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te
urgeret.]
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Greatness
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Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet
Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;
Should the big last extend the shoe too wide,
Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside;
The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein,
The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain;
And when too short the modish shoes are worn,
You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.
Author: John Gay
Source: Trivia (bk. I, l. 33)
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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.
Author: Giuseppe Giusti
Source: The Chronicle of the Boot
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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.
Author: Giuseppe Giusti
Source: The Chronicle of the Boot
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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.
Author: Oscar H. Harpel
Source: The Haunted Cobbler
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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,
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: Shakespeare Jest Books--Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies (no. 86)
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those
persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: Table-talk--Essay (22)
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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A careless shoe string, in whose tie
I see a wilde civility.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Delight in Disorder
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Cinderella's lefts and rights
To Geraldine's were frights,
And I trow
The damsel, deftly shod,
Has dutifully trod
Until now.
Author: Frederick Locker-Lampson
Source: To My Mistress's Boots
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Oh, where did hunter win
So delicate a skin
For her feet?
You lucky little kid,
You perished, so you did,
For my sweet.
Author: Frederick Locker-Lampson
Source: To My Mistress's Boots
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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.
Author: Frederick Locker-Lampson
Source: To My Mistress's Boots
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
[Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]
Author: Frederick Locker-Lampson
Source: To My Mistress's Boots
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When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he
is a shoemaker.
[Fr., Quand nous veoyons un homme mal chausse, nous disons que ce
n'est pas merveille, s'il est chausstier.]
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XXIV)
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To each foot its own shoe.
[Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.]
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays (bk. III, ch. XIII)
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But from the hoop's bewitching round,
He very shoe has power to wound.
Author: Edward Moore
Source: The Spider and the Bee--Fable X (l. 29)
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Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
Author: Edward Moore
Source: The Spider and the Bee--Fable X (l. 29)
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. . . 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."
Author: Plutarch
Source: Lives (vol. II, Life of Aemilius Paulus)
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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.
Author: Jan Van Ryswick (Ryswyk)
Source: Hans Grovendraad, translated from the French by F.W. Ricord
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