Sock Sayings and Quotes

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

When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a big hole in the sock. So I stopped wearing socks. Albert Einstein
Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks for instance. Barbara Holland
We know Jesus wasn't English because he wore sandals— but never with socks. Linda Smith
We don't have to put up with your snidey remarks, your total slobiness, your socks that set off the sprinkler system. Chris Barrie
The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks. Louis de Bernieres
Socks And pants are the same because they are both items of clothing and they come in pairs. But they're not the same because socks are usually for feet and pants are usually for legs. These kinds of conversations help build a mathematical understanding of equivalence. Malke Rosenfeld
A well-wearing sock will hold snug to your foot, minimizing any slippage in the shoe, so that foot, sock, and shoe can move as one. Clara Parkes
Socks are the breakfast of our knitting diet, a physical and metaphorical underpinning to our day. They get us off to a new start, send us out into the world, and give a good indication of how the day will go. Clara Parkes
Socks and pants are the same because they are both items of clothing and they come in pairs. But they're not the same because socks are usually for feet and pants are usually for legs. These kinds of conversations help build a mathematical understanding of equivalence. Nancy Bush
The humble sock also played a central role in those marriages that did take place. Stockings were tossed rather than a floral bouquet. Nancy Bush
The history of the humble sock is a long and interesting one. No one knows exactly when man first found he would be more comfortable if his feet were covered. Nancy Bush
No article of human apparel has been more taken for granted than the sock. Nancy Bush
Click, click! how the needles go / Through the busy fingers, to and fro-- / With no bright colors of berlin wool, / Delicate hands today are full: / Only a yarn of deep, dull blue, / Socks for the feet of the brave and true. Anonymous Americas
Woolen socks, / Where are you now? / It seems I've let you go / Somehow. / I bought you in / December last. / You served me well. J.W. Emanuelson
Some say it's in the dryer where the socks all go to die / Some believe it's in the wash machine where many are left behind / No matter way you looks it, there be socks there all alone / Those socks they be survivors and I gave'em all a home. Michael Averill
So if you still think I be crazy there be one thing I can say /Mix and match a pair of socks and brighten up your day / Save a few from lonely isolation in the pile / Wear them like the socks they are and wear'em all with style. Michael Averill
When exhausted and feeling sorry for yourself, at least change your socks. Norman McClean
I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on. Flavor Flav
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woolen socks induce good thoughts! Franz Grillparzer
I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine. Matt Skiba
I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks. Groucho Marx
I wish I could change my mind as easily as I change socks. But then I don't change socks so easily. Francesca Woodman
Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? Cecelia Ahern
Granny always said finding justice was as tough as putting socks on a rooster. Jessica Maria Tuccelli
Different colored socks are no different. They hug your legs as warmly only missing their twin. Suyasha Subedi
Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. Mo Rocca
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots. Albert Einstein
Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks. Aldo Leopold
I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks. Groucho Marx
If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks. Cynthia Nelms