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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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"Better the foot slip than the tongue." »French Proverb
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"He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup." »American Proverb
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"A closed mouth gathers no foot." »Unknown
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"If you speak the truth, keep 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, "King John", Act 5 scene 7
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"When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot." »African Proverb
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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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"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave." »Plutarch
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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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"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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"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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"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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"He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot." »Unknown
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"Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot." »Leone Levi
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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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"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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"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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"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." »Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Most readily measure the inches and feet of life's ups and downs, but it is only the foot forward that really counts." »Chase LeBlanc
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"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings." »Helen Hayes
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"The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces." »Horace
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"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string." »Spike Milligan, The Goons
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