Nay, her foot speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]
One foot in the grave. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Better a bare foot than none. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
His very foot has music in 't,
As he comes up the stair. [ W. J. Mickle ]
Every shoe fits not every foot. [ Proverb ]
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time; [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,A Psalm Of Life ]
Noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers. [ Spencer ]
Two to one is odds at foot-ball. [ Proverb ]
One shoe does not fit every foot. [ Italian Proverb ]
Feet that run on willing errands! [ Longfellow ]
A willing mind makes a light foot. [ Proverb ]
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more!
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. [ Percy ]
Better the foot slip than the tongue. [ Proverb ]
The shadow cloaked from head to foot,
Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. [ Tennyson ]
One foot is better than two crutches. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
You have made a hand of it like a foot. [ Proverb ]
Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again. [ Robert Herrick ]
As if the wind, not she, did walk,
Nor pressed a flower, nor bowed a stalk. [ Ben Jonson ]
Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot. [ Proverb ]
The inaudible and noiseless foot of time. [ William Shakespeare ]
The tired ox plants his foot more firmly. [ Proverb ]
O happy earth.
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! [ Spenser ]
The flower she touched on dipped and rose. [ Tennyson ]
Make not another's shoes by your own foot. [ Proverb ]
Feet like sunny gems on our English green. [ Tennyson ]
Steps with a tender foot, light as on air.
The lovely, lordly creature floated on. [ Tennyson ]
A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
A six-foot suckling, mincing in its gait.
Affected, peevish, prim and delicate;
Fearful it seemed, tho' of athletic make,
Lest brutal breezes should so roughly shake
Its tender form, and savage motion spread
O'er its pale cheeks, the horrid manly red. [ Churchill ]
Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen. [ William Shakespeare ]
The fairest looking shoe may pinch the foot. [ Proverb ]
Agues come on horseback and go away on foot. [ Proverb ]
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, -
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is not hand, nor foot.
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose.
By any other name would smell as sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]
His tongue is as cloven as the devil's foot. [ Proverb ]
It is good to go a foot with a horse in hand. [ Proverb ]
The foot of the owner is manure for the farm. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Tell not your foe when your foot is slipping. [ Proverb ]
Pride goeth forth on horseback, grand and gay,
But cometh back on foot, and begs its way. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
An inch in an hour, is a foot in a day's work. [ Proverb ]
So lightly walks, she not one mark imprints,
Nor brushes off the dews, nor soils the tints. [ Churchill ]
To thrust one's foot under another man's table. [ Proverb ]
Every foot will tread on him who is in the mud. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
But strong of limb
And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far
Outstripping all, comes first to every land,
And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers
Do afterwards redress. [ Homer ]
You take more care of your shoe than your foot. [ Proverb ]
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip.
Nay, her foot speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]
With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]
Wisdom hath one foot on land and another on sea. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light. [ William Shakespeare ]
The foot on the cradle, the hands on the distaff. [ Proverb ]
I never could tread a single pleasure under foot. [ Browning ]
To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot. [ Portuguese Proverb ]
We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot. [ Ovid ]
What though the foot be shackled; the heart is free. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Young prodigal in a coach will be old beggar bare-foot. [ Proverb ]
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands. [ Chamfort ]
So light a foot will never wear out the everlasting flint. [ William Shakespeare ]
The master's eye fattens the horse and his foot the ground. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Old men have one foot in the grave, and many young men too. [ Proverb ]
We judge of the size of the statue of Hercules by the foot.
I will not pull the thorn out of your foot to put it into mine. [ Proverb ]
He that hath one foot in the straw hath another in the spittle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
School distinctions are the impressions of the devil's cloven foot. [ Proverb ]
He who sets one foot in a bawdy-house claps the other in an hospital. [ Proverb ]
A cheerful comrade is better than a waterproof coat and a foot-warmer. [ Henry van Dyke ]
Robespierre on foot and on horseback, (i.e. Robespierre and Napoleon). [ Mme. de Staël ]
The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle foot. [ Richter ]
Mathematics has not a foot to stand on which is not purely metaphysical. [ De Quincey ]
Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. [ Swift ]
What avails it me, to draw one foot out of the mire, and stick the other in? [ Proverb ]
We salute more willingly an acquaintance in a carriage than a friend on foot. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
A slip of the foot may be soon recovered; but that of the tongue perhaps never. [ Proverb ]
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. [ Homer ]
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it. [ Arsene Houssaye ]
Rarely does punishment, with halting foot, fail to overtake the criminal in his flight. [ Horace ]
Her feet beneath her petticoat like little mice stole in and out, as if they feared the light. [ Suckling ]
There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot. [ Emmons ]
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. [ Bunyan ]
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. [ Macaulay ]
Let them take one foot in your house, and they will soon have taken four (give them an inch and they will take an ell). [ La Fontaine ]
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. [ Colton ]
Let's take the instant by the forward top; for we are old, and on our quick'st decrees the inaudible and noiseless foot of Time steals, ere we can effect them. [ William Shakespeare ]
And the prettiest foot; Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats, Ah! Mr. Trapland? [ Congreve ]
When the foot of the mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us. [ Auerbach ]
Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books. [ William Shakespeare ]
The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot. [ W. E. Channing ]
From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth; he has twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him: he hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]
Even the grasses in exposed fields were bung with innumerable diamond pendants, which jingled merrily when brushed by the foot of the traveler. * * * It was as if some superincumbent stratum of the earth had been removed in the night, exposing to light a bed of untarnished crystals. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me!
[ Charles Dickens ]
Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and little, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. [ Montaigne ]
See a fond mother encircled by her children; with pious tenderness she looks around, and her soul even melts with maternal love. One she kisses on its cheeks, and clasps another to her bosom; one she sets upon her knee, and finds a seat upon her foot for another. And while, by their actions, by their lisping words, and asking eyes, she understands their numberless little wishes, to these she dispenses a look, and a word to those; and whether she grants or refuses, whether she smiles or frowns, it is all in tender love. [ Krummacher ]
All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]