Profound!
"The foolish and the dead alone never change their pants." - James Russell Lowell
Profound!
"The foolish and the dead alone never change their pants." - James Russell Lowell
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
yes, and so by contrast then:
“A wise man travels to discover pants.”--James Russell Lowell
"I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large."
Charlie Chaplin
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
"Music should strike fire from the pants of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman." - Ludwig van Beethoven
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
beethoven---the originator of hunka hunka burnin' love!
"pants are the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."--Ludwig van Beethoven
(or at least the barrier)
lol...
“Lift up your pants, my brethren, high, higher! And do not forget your legs! Lift up also your legs, ye good dancers, and better still if ye stand upon your heads!” - Friedrich Nietszche
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
was Nietzsche not familiar with kilts i wonder?
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of pants that makes unhappy marriages."--Friedrich Nietzsche
i mean, the men might be okay with it but women can probably only stand so much male underwear.
Not sure
So true.
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the pants which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” - Epictetus
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
I think this refers to the German saying "to have the pants one.". The one who has "the pants on", man or woman, is the head of the marriage. A man "without his pants on" would be a weakling in this context. Translated literally to English it doesn´t make sense, as you rightly noted, bounty.Originally Posted by bounty
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
there is an old saying in America danik that you don't hear much on tv anymore---"the pants in the family"
“Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating pants.” --Epictetus
its not very well known that Epictetus was an original promoter of nudist colonies.
lol
"Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want pants." - Maya Angelou
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
well here she is kinda saying the opposite (an insertion rather than a substitution):
“We need much less pants than we think we need.”--maya angelou
No, I think Maya was pretty open minded in both
"Diseased pants oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions." - Shakespeare, (Henry IV)
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
do you know if you do an internet search for "diseased pants," nothing shows up. so a part of Shakespeare and old English history has apparently been lost.
"Why, Hal, ’tis my vocation, Hal;
’tis no sin for a man to labor in his pants." --Shakespeare henry iv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKWxpuiUEk8
Lol
"The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white pants." - Gustave Flaubert
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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