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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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"Single is every living creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay, Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away: Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom." »Manu
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"You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else." »Hermann Hesse
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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." »Gandhi
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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." »Carl Sagan
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"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"You can't get single things without any single effort and effort is depend on the quality and quantity of your desire." »Prakash Adhikari
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"Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world." »The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin
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"Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world." »The Talmud
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"Better the foot slip than the tongue." »French Proverb
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"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave." »Plutarch
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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
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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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"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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"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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"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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"You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt." »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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"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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"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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"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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