Famous quotes containing the word slippers:
“A feather bed had every man,
Warm slippers and hot-water can,
Brown windsor from the captains store,
A valet, too, to every four.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“I have placed slippers very carefully under my bed, only to have them crawl out during the night to a position where I will step into them the wrong way round when leaping out of bed to answer the telephone.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
“The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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