He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.
Proverb
Related
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...
More Proverb
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
PROVERB The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
PROVERB Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
PROVERB If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
PROVERB Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
PROVERB Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it w...
PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
PROVERB Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
PROVERB There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Lost time is never found again.
PROVERB Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
PROVERB To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the p...
PROVERB Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
PROVERB In teaching others we teach ourselves.
PROVERB He who does not research has nothing to teach.
PROVERB Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains,...
PROVERB He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
PROVERB No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
PROVERB Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
PROVERB Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
PROVERB Who has a trade may go anywhere.
PROVERB No one was ever lost on a straight road.
PROVERB Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
PROVERB That which proves too much, proves nothing!
PROVERB When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
PROVERB If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
PROVERB The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
PROVERB Never say die.
PROVERB There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and t...
PROVERB If you wish for peace be ready for war.
PROVERB When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
PROVERB Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
PROVERB Peace with a club in hand is war.
PROVERB If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
PROVERB Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
PROVERB Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
PROVERB Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB That which is escaped now is pain to come.
PROVERB A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
PROVERB Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB Riches have wings.
PROVERB A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
PROVERB As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
PROVERB No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
PROVERB The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
PROVERB Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB Time tries truth.
PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
PROVERB The Devil finds work for idle hands.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
PROVERB Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
PROVERB The work praises the man.
PROVERB A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
PROVERB