A handsome shoe often pinches the foot. – French proverb
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. – French Proverb

A handsome shoe often pinches the foot. – French proverb
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. – French Proverb
It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day. – French Proverb
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle