Famous quotes containing the words wrong foot, wrong and/or foot:
“Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“We stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley’s ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, “I refute it thus.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)