He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.


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He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.
FRENCH PROVERB
He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot
DANISH PROVERB
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
ROBERT BURTON
He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.
NIGERIAN PROVERB
He waits long that waits for another man's death
DUTCH PROVERB
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
OPRAH WINFREY
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERT
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that sows thorns, should not go barefoot.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He who waits on God never waits too long
CHUCK WAGNER
He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If they told me to take my shoes off, I'd coach barefoot,
JERRY SLOAN
I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girl...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The people whose children had to walk barefoot to school killed the people who could buy shoes for t...
JARED DIAMOND
In those days, up until kids went to high school, it was customary to go to school barefoot. But in ...
BILL DAYTON
You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
PHYLLIS DILLER
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird...
DANNY PUDI
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming
H.P. LOVECRAFT
I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procu...
ANTHONY WAYNE
A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to ...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoo...
PHYLLIS DILLER
A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...
GEORGES CLéMENCEAU
When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. ...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns
ENGLISH PROVERB
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion year...
MARK TWAIN
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
TOM KRISTENSEN
Feelin' faded without the faders, Darth without the Vaders. Brought back to earth when I hear that n...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
ITALIAN PROVERB
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot
ITALIAN PROVERB
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others...
JOHN DRYDEN
On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter...
ROBERT K. GREENLEAF
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
GEORGE HERBERT
A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
UNKNOWN
Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not de...
SANTOSH AVVANNAVAR
I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot sho...
RYAN REYNOLDS
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everything comes to him who hustles...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the w...
RACHEL CAINE
I've been barefoot most of my life: either flip flops or barefoot on the pool deck. Although you...
SUMMER SANDERS
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
JULES RENARD
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
CHINESE PROVERB
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I r...
JACKY ICKX
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it...
ZOLA BUDD
One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.
LINDSAY KOLB
[At normally hectic Chicago-O'Hare International Airport,] things are going very slow, ... be prepar...
MONIQUE BOND
All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW WILSON
All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW T. WILSON
As long as you come in with a nice pair of shoes, pants and a collared shirt, you are good to go.
JOHN GRACE
Whenever a river reaches the ocean, it waits to go back..
WILL ADVISE
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize t...
MIGUEL SYJUCO
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
DON ELLIS
To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
As long as I get those running shoes on, then there's no turning back, and I have to go for that...
KIM RAVER
He waits till the right moment.
ROBERTO GONZALEZ
One may go a long way after one is tired.
PROVERB
One may go a long way after one is tired
FRENCH PROVERB
There's an old African proverb that I have on my desk that says a lot about partnerships. If you wan...
PATTY STONESIFER
The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.
WILLIAM MOYERS
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Soil is earth’s barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulh...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beas...
THOMAS BURNETT SWANN
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid satisfaction from pudding while he is alive t...
UNKNOWN
This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches!
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER
When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your ...
HEDY LAMARR
I miss him so much, but it's confusing, because I missed him long before he was dead, and that's the...
A.S. KING
I hate being in my shoes
...

I am a deadman there!
DEYTH BANGER
I don't like Shakespeare. If they put 'Barefoot in the Park' or something like that ... if it was a ...
TOM RYAN
I don't walk barefoot. When I see a girl barefoot in the street... I'm like, 'Really?...
JUAN PABLO GALAVIS
I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
But he is an Italian," was Umberto's sensible reply. "He doesn't care if you break some law a little...
ANNE FORTIER
Happiness is psychological. It's a mans greed that makes it physical.
BRANDON JAMES
I'd go in for milk and bread and walk out with a pair of shoes.
JENNY MCKENZIE
It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.
UNKNOWN
All good things come to he who waits
PROVERB
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
It's not over. We're going to fight for it. I think we may be here into December, with a little luck...
HILLY KRISTAL
Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery...brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wh...
EUDORA WELTY
I don't want to go in armed with a bunch of tunes -- I want to go in barefoot and unprepared. It's a...
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out
BERNARD CORNWELL
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
He certainly has a big shot and really sees the ice well. He's very patient, waits for things to unf...
RANDY HILLIER
Autumn leaf waits for autumn wind to reach the unreachable places; wise mind waits for silence for t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.
PAWAN MISHRA
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer...
ANITA BROOKNER
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
ROBERT BURTON
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to...
ALFRED POLGAR
People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS...

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