“From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.”
"The Day of the People," The Class Struggle Vol. III No. 1 (February 1919) http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1919/daypeople.htm
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“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”
Act II, scene 2. Compare Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, Act I, scene 3. Pliny, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter XVII. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”
A Mad World, my Masters (1605), Compare: "From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, 1 he is all mirth", William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii. Sc. 2.
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Song lyrics, Lovesexy (1988)
“If the BSP leader is not satisfied, I am ready to behead myself and lay my head at your feet.”
Addressing Mayawati, on the handling of the Suicide of Rohith Vemula, as quoted in " Smriti Irani, Mayawati feud rocks Rajya Sabha http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/250216/smriti-irani-mayawati-feud-rocks-rajya-sabha.html" Deccan Chronicle (25 February 2016)
Variant: My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
Source: King Henry VI, Part 3
Source: The Last Temptation of Christ (1951), Ch. 10
“My feet are heavy now but on I go,
My head erect beneath the tragic years.”
I felt the World a-spinning on its Nave, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”
Stobaeus, iii. 3. 51
Quoted by Stobaeus
“As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I’ll be fine.”
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