If he ever went to school without any boots, it was because he was too big for them. SeeWilson 915:89.

-Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor
  At the Conservative Party conference, responding to remarks by Harold Wilson about his humble upbringing.

A lie can travel halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. See Spurgeon 811:41.

-Baron
  Speech in the House of Commons, Nov.

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^8  Mr Toots. Dombey and Son, ch.48.

This masculine invisibility makes gods of them, A pantheon of boots and overalls.

-Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham
  'Men of  Terry Street'.

Look how you use proud words, When you let proud wordsgo, it is not easy to call them back, They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you callingö look out how you use proud words.

-Sandburg, Carl
  Slabs of the SunburntWest,'Primer Lesson'.

Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times.Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort of attire for a gentleman.

-Sharpe,Tom (Thomas Ridley)
  Porterhouse Blue, ch.9.

He's a gentleman: look at his boots.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Bystander. Pygmalion, act1.

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.

-Springsteen, Bruce
Collected in Gems from Spurgeon (1859).

Only, here and there, an old sailor, Drunk and asleep in his boots, Catches tigers In red weather.

-Stevens,Wallace
  Harmonium,'Disillusionment ofTen O'Clock'.

From the [empty] carpet-bag she took out seven flannel night-gowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album. Last of all came a folding camp-bedstead with blankets and eiderdown complete.

-Travers, P(amela) L(yndon)
  Mary Poppins, ch.1.

Theschool that Iwenttointhenorthwas a school where more than half the children in my class never had any boots or shoes to their feet. They wore clogs, because they lasted longer than shoes of comparable price. See Bulmer-Thomas166:55.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  Speech, Birmingham, 28 Jul.