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Agesilaus, the Great
To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
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Cervantes
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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Lord Byron
Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song; So shall the fair your handiwork peruse, Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes.
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Ralph Waldo
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
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Ralph Waldo
If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te urgeret.]
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