- SHOEMAKING ##
SHOEMAKING
A cobbler, * * * produced several new grins of bis own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.
To one commending an orator for his skill in
amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I
do not think that shoemaker a good workman
that makes a great shoe for a little foot."
Agesilaus The Great—laconic ApophHim that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Democritus to the Reader. P. 34. (Ed. 1887)
| seealso = (See also Montaigne)
| topic = Shoemaking
| page = 705
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 3
| text = <poem>Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong,
Compose at once a slipper and a song;
So shall the fair your handiwork peruse,
Your sonnets sure shall please—perhaps your
| author = Byron
| work = English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
L. 751.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
| author = Cervantes
| work = Don Quixote.
| place = Pt. I. Ch. IV.
| seealso = (See also Erasmus, Herbert, Plutarch)
| topic = Shoemaking
| page = 705
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he
makes nothing else.
Emerson—Letters and Social Aims. Greatness.
Si calceum induisses, turn demum sentires qua
parte te urgeret.
If you had taken off the shoe then, at length
you would feel in what part it pinched you.
Quoted by Erasmus as founded on the remarks of Paulus ^Emilius when he divorced his wife.
| seealso = (See also Cervantes)
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 5
| text = Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet
Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking
sleet;
Should the big last extend the shoe too wide,
Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside;
The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein,
The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain;
And when too short the modish shoes are worn,
You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.
Gay—Trivia. Bk. I. L. 33.
I was not made of common calf,
Nor ever meant for country loon;
If with an axe I seem cut out,
The workman was no cobbling clown;
A good jack boot with double sole he made,
To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.
Giuseppe Giusti—The Chronicle of the Boot.
Marry because you have drank with the king,
And the king hath so graciously pledged you,
You shall no more be called shoemakers.
But you and yours to the world's end
Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.
Probably a play of George A. Greene. Time
of Edward IV.
As he cobbled and hammered from morning till
dark,
With the footgear to mend on his knees,
Stitching patches, or pegging on soles as he sang,
Out of tune, ancient catches and glees.
Oscar H. Harpel—The Haunted Cobbler.
One said he wondered that leather was not
dearer than any other thing. Being demanded
a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood
upon than any other thing in the world.
Hazlitt—Shakespeare Jest Boohs. Conceits,
Clinches, Flashes and Whimsies. No. 86.
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been
given to those persons who find fault with small
and insignificant details.
Hazlitt—Table-talk. Essay. 22.
The wearer knows where the shoe wrings.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jaciila Prudentum.
| seealso = (See also Cervantes)
| topic = Shoemaking
| page = 705
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>A careless shoe string, in whose tie
I see a wilde civility.
| author = Herrick
| work = Delight in Disorder.
Cinderella's lefts and rights
To Geraldine's were frights,
And I trow
The damsel, deftly shod,
Has dutifully trod
Until now.
Frederick Locker-Lampson—To My Mistress's Boots.
Oh, where did hunter win
So delicate a skin
For her feet?
You lucky little kid,
You perished, so you did,
For my sweet.
Frederick Locker-Lampson—To My Mistress's Boots.
The fairy stitching gleams
On the sides and in the seams,
And it shows
That Pixies were the wags
Who tipped these funny tags
And these toes.
Frederick Locker-Lampson—To My Mistress's Boots.
Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather
Martial. 3. 16. 6.
| seealso = (See also Pliny)
| topic = Shoemaking
| page = 705
}}
{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Quand nous veoyons un homme mal chauss£,
nous disons que ce n'est pas merveille, s'il est
chaussetier.
When we see a man with bad shoes, we say
it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.
Montaigne—Essays. Bk. I. Ch. XXIV.
| seealso = (See also Burton)
| topic = Shoemaking
| page = 705
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>A chaque pied son Soulier.
To each foot its own shoe.
Montaigne—Assays. Bk. in. Ch. Xin.
