“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
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“Some women have a weakness for shoes… I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”
“840. Barefoot must not go among Thorns.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot., Poor Richard's Almanack (1742) : He that sows thorns, should not go barefoot., and Poor Richard's Almanack (1756) : He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“2289. He that scattereth Thorns, must not go Barefoot.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”
“Going Barefoot,” On the Vineyard (1980)
“Always tell the truth, even if it should make him jump out of his shoe.”
Source: All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 4. Viceroys without colonial aspirations? Jules Van Praet (1806-1887) http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#2.%20 He certainly did not play his role of chief of staff to the king as that of a submissive slave: this is apparent from a preserved quote from him in Bruges in which he was determined to be his king. VIAENE, V. “Leopold I, Belgian Diplomacy and the Culture of the European Concert, 1831-1865”, 130. Van Praet then rebelled against the fact that Leopold I had already had several mistresses there, which according to the private secretary was detrimental to the popularity of the monarchy.
Source: Gulistan (1258), Chapter 3, story 19. Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold. ( Persian version https://ganjoor.net/saadi/golestan/gbab3/sh18/)
“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”
“We are not for making shoes, so shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can have shoes.”