Then up and started our gudewife, Gied three skips on the floor: 'Gudeman, ye've spoken the foremost word, Get up and bar the door.'

-Ballads
'Get Up and Bar the Door'.

When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  HMS Pinafore, act 2.

That isindeed verygood.Ishall havetorepeatthatonthe Golden Floor!

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  Remark made to his doctor after the latter had told him a risque¤   story on his deathbed.

And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 40.

Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his wayaround the floor.

-Lerner, AlanJay
  'You Did It', from My Fair Lady (music by Marcus Loewe).

A man's boots with a woman in them Clatter across the floor.

-MacCaig, Norman Alexander
  'Crofter's Kitchen, Evening'.

Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves.

-Milton,John
  Lycidas, l.165^73.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  Good Intentions,'You and Me and P. B. Shelley'.

  She's so clumsy. I watch for her to do the same things every night.The wayshejumps onthebed, asif shewere stamping on someone's face, and draws the curtains back with a great clatter, in that casually destructive way of hers. It's like someone launching a battleship. Have you ever noticed how noisy women are? Have you? The way they kick the floorabout, simply walking over it? Or have you watched them sitting at their dressing tables, dropping their weapons and banging down their bits of boxes and brushes and lipsticks? 630

-Osborne,John
  Look Back in  Anger.

On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be 'in'the painting.

-Pollock, (Paul) Jackson
  Quoted in ItaloTomassoni Pollock (1968).

   I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he'd've put diamonds on the floor.

-Rivers,Joan pseudonym of Joan AlexandraMolinsky
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Whenever Auntie moves around, Her dresses make a curious sound; They trail behind her up the floor, And trundle after through the door.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.15,'Auntie's Skirts'.

If you put a floor under wages and a ceiling over prices, a free man cannot long stand erect.

-Wriston,Walter Bigelow
  Risk and Other Four-LettersWords.