“Religion is like a pair of shoes….. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.”
— Beryl Bainbridge, book Injury Time
Injury Time (London: Abacus, [1977] 2003) ch. 4, pp. 41-42.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bea…" by Beryl Bainbridge?
Beryl Bainbridge5
English novelist 1932–2010Related quotes
“She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.”
Charles Perrault (1628–1703) French author
Tales of Mother Goose, 1727, "Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper"
Alexander McCall Smith (1948) British writer
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, chapter 8.
The 44 Scotland Street series
“Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.”
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher
“She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
