Slippers Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old slippers quotes, slippers sayings, and slippers proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. Al Franken
He's really a pipe-and-slippers kind of guy — lead pipe and hobnail slippers. Mark Russell
Affections are like slippers; they will wear out. Edgar Saltus
Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up. Martin Freeman
One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary form an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray. George Gissing
God never promises us an easy journey in carpet slippers David Bentley
As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet into the night’s velvet slippers I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag, of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars. Sanober Khan
If it weren't for you, mornings wouldn't be so comforting - slippers wouldn't scrape through the rooms of my heart John Geddes
Closets held shoes, handbags, silk stockings and secrets. Of course, they also held slippers. Comfortable slippers, fuzzy slippers, pink slippers, sexy slippers and somewhere in every woman’s closet was the glass slipper. That ideal. That box of old letters, that memory tucked away, that secret wish. That inner need to satisfy what was commonly known as the Cinderella Syndrome. Tracy Crudup
In the original story, Cinderella didn’t wear glass slippers (which makes sense–glass would break). She wore squirrel fur slippers. But the person who translated the tale from French to English confused pantouffles en vair with pantouffles en verre, and glass it became. Alicia Alvrez
Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella. Don Marquis
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. John Bunyan
History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. Voltaire
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? Oliver Wendell Holmes
Shoes are funny beasts. You think they're just clothes, but really, they're alive. They want things. Fancy ones with gems want to go to balls, big boots want to go to work, slippers want to dance. Or sleep. Shoes make the path you're on. Change your shoes, change the path. Catherynne M. Valente
No glass slippers, just a glass heart shattering into a million slivers of regret. Donna Cooner
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. Abraham Verghese
It's better to ask Santa Claus for a pair of slippers for Christmas rather than peace on earth. You might actually get it. Terry Pratchett