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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 day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day." »Kenneth Patton
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"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." »Anonymous
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"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown." »Chinese Proverb
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"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?" »Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
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"A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have." »Unknown
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"A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing." »Albert P. Ryder
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"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Frank Jane, since I've met you I've noticed things that I never knew were there before birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character." »Henry David Thoreau
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"This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag)" »Lester Bowles Pearson
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"When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well" »John Milton
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"Better the foot slip than the tongue." »French Proverb
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"If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup." »Turkish Proverb
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"A closed mouth gathers no foot." »Unknown
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"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave." »Plutarch
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"He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup." »American Proverb
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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, "King John", Act 5 scene 7
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"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." »Turkish 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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"Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind." »Chinese Proverb
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"Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot." »Steve Post
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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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"One who thinks by the inch and talks by the mile should be kicked by the foot." »Unknown
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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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"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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"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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