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"I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads." »Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration
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"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time." »J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Elaine Dickinson There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane" »Airplane
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"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School board" »Mark Twain
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." »Zora Neale Hurston
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion
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"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." »Thomas Huxley
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"Better the foot slip than the tongue." »French Proverb
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"A closed mouth gathers no foot." »Unknown
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"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." »Turkish proverb
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"He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup." »American Proverb
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"This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror." »William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7
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"If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup." »Turkish Proverb
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"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave." »Plutarch
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"When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot." »African Proverb
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"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror." »William Shakespeare
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"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time." »Colette
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"Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot." »Steve Post
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"Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind." »Chinese Proverb
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"I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, 'Tadpoles Tadpoles is a winner' We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it." »Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838
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"One who thinks by the inch and talks by the mile should be kicked by the foot." »Unknown
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"He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot." »Unknown
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"foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place." »Fontenelle
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"One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel." »Jewish Folk Saying
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"Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?" »Robert Browning
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