The 2,000 Year Old Man (and sequels)
Ever Ever After
Enchanted (2007)
“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”
Dr. Stockmann, Act V
Robert Farquharson translation
An Enemy of the People (1882)
“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
“Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.”
Variant: It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool (1984)
“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
This derives from a folk proverb sometimes attributed to Clementine Paddleford, but in use as an "old proverb" as early as 1908, when Paddeford was only 10 years old.
Misattributed
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
Source: The Sense of an Ending
