Michel de Montaigne Quotes

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.

I don't have anything against long hair. I've known some crew-cut bums.

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.

Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do.

Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

Never judge a cover by its book.

In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.

A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat

Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.

The first thing I notice about a man are his shoes. Then I look at his watch.

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.