dhammapada wrote: If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.
They are not the first nor the only. Once the army started issuing MC to deploying soldiers boot manufacturers began making them in that pattern. http://www.bellevilleshoe.com/product.php
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Harold R. McAlindon