
“Religion is like a pair of shoes….. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
“Religion is like a pair of shoes….. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)
“You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.”
Pt. 2, ch. 31
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Variant: Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
“Man on Bridge” p. 89
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“But when mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill!”
Canto III, line 125.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“Grammar is… the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft