walk a mile in my shoes

[mjandrews96]

who first wrote the above quotation was from the bible shakespeare or whoever many tks for answer....

[Naomicorlett]

seems to be an American proverb
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/6/mes sages/740.html

[dot.haukes]

I've just answered this somewhere else, anyway I've found it now:

It;s a Cherokee prayer:

Oh Great Spirit grand that I may never find fault with my neighbouruntil I have walked the trail of life in his mocassins.

[dot.haukes]

*grant

[Clanad]

dot may br on to something since the Crow tribe here in the western U.S. (in their own tongue Absaroka) semi-jokingly say "... If a white man offers to let you walk a mile in his shoes... take him up on it. You'll be a mile away from him and have his shoes..."