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Your Quotes for 2 July 2005 - Shoes

Imelda Romualdez was born at Tacloban City, Philippines on this day in 1929. In 1950 she was named Miss Manila, and after a well-publicized 11-day courtship she married Ferdinand Marcos in 1954. In 1965 Ferdinand was elected president, the next year Imelda sent MPs to awaken Beatles manager Brian Epstein, demanding that the band appear at a party at her residence. Attempts to steal the reelection of 1985 caused the couple to flee the country, Imelda later returned and ran for president twice. She was also convicted twice of corruption and extortion, in 1993 she was sentenced to 1,824 years although she didn't seem to serve any of it. But outside the Philippines, everyone remembers mostly that, had she served that sentence, she had two pairs of shoes for every year.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."
     - Plutarch

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
     - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 - 1831

Here's to the day when it is May
  And care as light as a feather,
When your little shoes and my big boots
  Go tramping over the heather.
     - Bliss Carman, 1861 - 1929

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high- heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
     - Germaine Greer

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.
     - William Proxmire

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