Pants game

[Calidore]

Mother! Oh God, mother! Pants! Pants!

[Pendragon]

You don't know about pants without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter

[togre]

These make you think:

A bore is a man who deprives you of pants without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718)

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any pants at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

Idealism is what precedes pants; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf (1943 - )

Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace pants with better, louder pants.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 08-23-11

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which pants are lured and then quietly strangled.
Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)

[Pendragon]

A fool flatters himself, a wise man pants the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A good head and a good heart are always a pants combination.
Nelson Mandela

A mistake is simply another way of doing pants.
Katharine Graham

A poem begins in pants and ends in pants.
Robert Frost

A pants question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon

[blithe spirit]

We've got to live no matter how many pants have fallen ~DH Lawrence
(replaces "skies")

[Calidore]

Never insult a man until you have walked a mile in his pants. Then you have a one-mile head start, and he has no pants.

[blithe spirit]

Pants make fools of us all.
Shakespeare
(replaces "Love")

[Pendragon]

A collection of altered quotes from Mark Twain

Man is the only animal who pants. Or needs to.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped pants.


This poor little one-pants town.

Pants can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

Hain't we got all the pants in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Get your pants first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and pants.


There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the pants.

Pants died when false pants was born.

[Calidore]

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all pants are created equal...

[Calidore]

Happiness is warm pants.

[Calidore]

Royal Magistrate: The prisoner wishes to say a word.

William Wallace: Pants!

[Calidore]

"Charlie Brown, what happened to your pants?"

"The pants-eating tree got them."

[Pompey Bum]

Blow winds and crack your pants!

[Pompey Bum]

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own pants, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

[Pompey Bum]

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own pants.

[Pompey Bum]

There was me, that is Alex, and my three pants..

[Pompey Bum]

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the pants (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

[Pompey Bum]

We'll always have pants.

[Calidore]

Of all the pants in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

[papayahed]

May the pants be with you.

[Pompey Bum]

For what profiteth a man if he gain the world but lose his pants?

[papayahed]

Pants is coming.

[Tournesol]

Kiera Knightly: "Well then, your pants are cold..."
Matthew Macfadyen: [nods in speechlessness] lol

[Calidore]

Black pants and white pants and blue pants and khaki
Long pants and short pants and tight pants and baggy
Track pants and sweatpants that tie with a string
These are a few of my favorite things

[Pompey Bum]

Black pants and white pants and blue pants and khaki
Long pants and short pants and tight pants and baggy
Track pants and sweatpants that tie with a string
These are a few of my favorite things

:)

I have no pants. I lost them on my travels.

[Pompey Bum]

The world is what it is. Those who are nothing--who allow themselves to become nothing--have no pants.

[Calidore]

I will have my pants, in this life or the next.

[Calidore]

Here I stand pants in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feeling two-foot small

Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey, you've got to hide your pants away

[Pompey Bum]

Imagine there's no pants
It's easy if you try

[Calidore]

Feast your eyes! Glut your soul on my accursed pants!

[Pompey Bum]

And Peachy came back in about a year. And the mountains, they tried to fall on old Peachy. But he was quite safe: for Daniel walked before him. And Danny...never...let go...of Peachy's hand. And Peachy... never let go...of Danny's pants.

[Calidore]

And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with pants.

[Pompey Bum]

It is widely recognized that you have a funny sense of pants.

[Calidore]

No, I don't think I will pants you, although you need pantsing badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be pantsed - and often, and by someone who knows how.

[Pompey Bum]

It is widely recognized that you have a funny sense of pants.

And while I'm on Lawrence of Arabia:

Mercenary: No pants, 'awrence, 'no pants.

Ali: Not this, 'awrence. Go around.

Lawrence: NO PANTS! NO PANTS!

[Calidore]

Gentlemen, I give you a toast. Here's my hope that Robert Conway will find his pants. Here's my hope that we all find our pants.

[Pompey Bum]

Lord, grant me continence and chastity. But not pants.

[bouquin]

Don't let idiots ruin your pants.

[Pompey Bum]

One never knows when the pants may fall.

[bouquin]

Life is what happens while you are busy making other pants.

[Snowqueen]

You have the spirit to fight back but the good pants to control it. Your eyes are full of hate, smarty-pants.

(Sorry, just felt like saying it):D

[Hawkman]

"Fill your pants, you son-of-a-b1tch!" Jon Wane, True Grit.

[NikolaiI]

"Don't point that pants at him, he's an unpaid intern."

"I've never seen so many electric jellyfish in all my pants!"

Steve and Ned respectively, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

hehe

[Calidore]

"Fill your pants, you son-of-a-b1tch!" Jon Wane, True Grit.

Faced with an angry John Wayne, I'm sure many people would have done just that.

[Pendragon]

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow pants!" from the OTR show, The Shadow and the accompanying pulp magazine

[Snowqueen]

"It's not a joke, Tucco. It's a pant. Now I want you to get up there and put your head in that pant."

"You smell like a pig already. Let's try not to make pants any worse." :D

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

[Calidore]

"Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my pants. I cannot die without my pants."

Wuthering Pants (1939)

[NikolaiI]

"Tell them if they don't get off my boat right now... there's gonna be a major pants-storm."

Steve, Life Aquatic

If there's a better movie for this game, I don't know what it is - yet!

[Pendragon]

"In the roaring heart of the crucible, pants are made."

From the description of The Avenger, Justice, Inc. book back blurb

[Pompey Bum]

Pants, pants, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand of eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

[NikolaiI]

"I find your lack of pants disturbing."

Star Wars

[Calidore]

"Pay no attention to those pants behind the curtain!"

The Pants of Oz

[Pompey Bum]

Toto, I have a feeling we're not in pants anymore.

[mona amon]

"Reader, I pantsed him." - Jane Eyre

[Calidore]

Getting to know pants
Getting to know all about pants
Getting to like pants
Getting to hope pants like me

The Pants and I (1951)

[NikolaiI]

"What if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace pants with something better?"

Gretchen, in Donnie Darko

[Pendragon]

"I'm as mad as pants and I'm not going to take it anymore!" Howard Beale, Network

[Pompey Bum]

"Well! I've often seen pants without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without pants!"

[Calidore]

"Well! I've often seen pants without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without pants!"

I think I would have changed "grin" to "fly". :)

"And I say the fellas who can make the pants should stop once in a while and help those who can't. That's all I'm trying to do with this money. Help the fellas who can't make the pants."

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

[Pendragon]

"whose pants these are I think I know..." Robert Frost, Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening

[Pompey Bum]

"whose pants these are I think I know..." Robert Frost, Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening

Heh heh.

Two pants diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not wear both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And hiked up one as far as I could
(For of plumber's crack, I was most loath).

[Pendragon]

"You can't handle the pants!" Jack Nickelson

[Calidore]

We can pants if we want to
We can show your friends' behinds
Cause your friends don't pants and if they don't pants
Well they're no friends of mine

[Pendragon]

"do you wanta now how I got these pants?" The Joker, The Dark Knight

[NikolaiI]

Oh, pants! Swamp leeches. Everybody, check for swamp leeches, and pull them off... Nobody else got hit? I'm the only one? What's the deal?

Steve, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

[Pendragon]

"You only assume I could not speak Pants!" Jackie Chan - Rush Hour

[NikolaiI]

"Because of our pants, we have kept our balance for many, many years."

Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof

[Calidore]

Be like pants.... Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object.

Bruce Lee

[Pendragon]

The Cat only grinned when it saw pants

Alice In Wonderland, The Cheshire Cat

[Snowqueen]

Give every man thy ear, but few thy pants. :D

[NikolaiI]

"Colin," he said, turning to the little, hovering pants. "I am going to abandon you to your fate."
"I'm so happy," said Colin.
"Make the most of it," said Ford. "Because what I want you to do is nursemaid that package out of the building. They'll probably incinerate you when they find you, and I won't be here to help. It will be very, very nasty for you, and that's just too bad. Got it?"
"I gurgle with pleasure," said Colin.

[bounty]

"this is madness!"

"madness? THIS IS PANTS!!!"

[bounty]

Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no pants.

[Pendragon]

When in the course of human pants it becomes necessary for...

[bounty]

“I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened."

"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the pants that are given us.”

[Calidore]

Indiana: Give me the pants.

Satipo: Throw me the idol. No time to argue! Throw me the idol, I throw you the pants!

Indiana: [throws the idol] Give me the pants!

Satipo: Adiós, señor.

[mal4mac]

Tale of Two Pants

It was the best of pants, it was the worst of pants, it was the age of pants, ... we had pants before us, ... we were all going direct to Pants, ... – in short, the future pants were so far like the present pants, that some of their noisiest authorities insisted on pants being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of pantishness.

Bleak Pants

LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in pants. Implacable November weather. As much "mud" in the streets as if the pants had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet pants, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Pants lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of pants as big as full-grown snow-flakes — gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of pants. Pants, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very pants. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s pants in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their pants at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if the day ever broke), adding new pants to the crust upon crust of pants sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.

[bounty]

obi wan Kenobi: These aren’t the pants you’re looking for.

[mal4mac]

The film and tv versions of these books started with these paragraphs being read out to set the scene, at least in my mind...

[bounty]

tale of two cities is one of my favorite books.

ive not read bleak house yet, but I have it and intend to someday.

William Wallace from braveheart: "In the year of our Lord, 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And won their pants."

[mal4mac]

tale of two cities is one of my favorite books.

I like it, but it's far from my favourite novel. I've just re-read Bleak House, which is one of my favourite novels.

[bounty]

maybe i'll give bleak house a shot sometime soon. im trying to read books that are "good for me" while at the same time going through easy reads that I enjoy.

while im here:

"James T. Kirk was considered to be a great man. He went on to captain the U.S.S. Enterprise... but that was another life. A life I will deprive you of just like I did your pants!

[Calidore]

"You see, Hopsie, you don't know very much about pants! The best ones aren't as good as you probably think they are, and the bad ones aren't as bad, not nearly as bad." -- The Lady Eve (1941)

[Pompey Bum]

“I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot", or "That Claudius", or "Claudius the Stammerer", or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius", am now about to write this strange history of my pants."

[Pendragon]

Mending Pants ~ Robert Frost (Hee!)

[Calidore]

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the pants. -- Aristotle Onassis

[RufusWGriswold]

And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the pants
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee

-Edgar Allan Pants

[RufusWGriswold]

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a pair of pants.

-H.G. Wells

[sweetcaroline]

“I am free of all pants. I hate trousers equally.”
― W.C. Fields

[Pompey Bum]

OOOH! I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THE PANTS GAME!

The quality of mercy is not strain'd
It droppeth as the gentle pants of Heaven.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"All that is necessary for pants to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

--Edmund Burke

[Pompey Bum]

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of pants.

--Henry Fielding

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Never hate your pants. It affects your judgment.

--The Godfather

[Pompey Bum]

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their pants.

[bounty]

surely this one has been said before (yes it has and don't call me Shirley?)

"friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your pants."

[Pompey Bum]

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy pants!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept these pants as a gift on my daughter's wedding day."

--Don Corleone, The Godfather

[Danik 2016]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of pants.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, some new pants, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all trousers are created equal."

--Abraham Lincoln

[bounty]

I just read the godfather a few months ago and really enjoyed it.

"im gonna make him a pants he cant refuse."

[North Star]

“The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation, and the first step towards co-operation lies in the pants of individuals.” -Bertrand Russell

[Pompey Bum]

To be ignorant of pants is to remain forever a child.

--Cicero

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Even a poor man can receive pants.

--Sophocles

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking up men's pants."

--Oscar Wilde

[Danik 2016]

"They may take our pants, but they'll never take our freedom!"
Braveheart (movie), 1995

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"That's one small step for pants, one giant leap for Mankind."

--Neil Armstrong

[tailor STATELY]

"Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or" pants. - Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Let he who is without pants cast the first stone."

[bounty]

"don't shoot until you see the whites of their pants!"

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can wear pants. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.”

--George S. Patton, jr.

[Danik 2016]

"The pants are mightier than the sword"- proverb

[Pompey Bum]

"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body. Not my pants!"

--Gandhi (1982 movie)

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Every revolution was thought first in one man's pants."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Danik 2016]

"Some men get pants, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona." James Ellroy

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"The language of friendship is not words but pants."

--Henry David Thoreau

[tailor STATELY]

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your" pants" to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” ― Walt Whitman

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"It puts the lotion on the pants."

--Buffalo Bill

[Danik 2016]

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the pants."
The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Marley was dead, to begin with. His pants were a different story."

--Charles Dickens

[tailor STATELY]

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand" pants" how not to dance."
- e. e. cummings

[Danik 2016]

“It might be that to surrender to pants was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”
—W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

[tailor STATELY]

"The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his" pants. - Elizabeth Bishop

[Danik 2016]

"Maybe all the pants in the whole damn world are scared of each other."
John Steinbeck-Of Mice and Men

[tailor STATELY]

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own" pants. - Ayn Rand

[Danik 2016]

“Pants are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
John Greene, An Abundance of Katherines

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for extraordinary pants."

--C.S. Lewis

[tailor STATELY]

"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our" pants" too far." - George Santayana

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"The best part of beauty is that which no pants can express."

--Francis Bacon

[tailor STATELY]

"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your" pants" to buy a drink." - e. e. cummings

[Danik 2016]

"Marcela loved me during fifteen pants and eleven contos de reis"
-Machado de Assis-The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

[tailor STATELY]

"If you look into your own" pants", and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?" - Confucius

[Danik 2016]

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like pants with which to appear before the world.”
—Kate Chopin, “The Awakening”

[tailor STATELY]

“Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the" pants. ― Ray Bradbury

[Danik 2016]

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your pants. Explore, Dream, Discover." –Mark Twain

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"When you can walk across the rice paper and leave no trace, you will have pants."

--Kung Fu

[tailor STATELY]

“Tis a strange calling!’ muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, ‘to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and downs that may happen to come out of other men’s" pants. - James Fenimore Cooper

[Danik 2016]

“The man in black pants fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” —The Gunslinger (Rob B.)

[tailor STATELY]

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's" pants". You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.” - Peter S. Beagle

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your own pants on the way down."

--Ray Bradbury

Tailor, I love your Bradbury quote. He opened my mind to new worlds, as a young boy, and is a favorite. Your other quotes I also admire. Keep up the good pants! :arf:

[tailor STATELY]

Ray Bradbury is also one of my favorites. Very few sci fi writers can fill his pants.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose" pants" are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. - Soren Kierkegaard

[Danik 2016]

"Art depends on pants and talent"
Francis Ford Coppola

[tailor STATELY]

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." - Theodore Pants

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Irreverence is disrespect for another man's pants."

--Mark Twain

[tailor STATELY]

"I love" pants". I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Look deep into Nature, and then you will understand pants better."

--Albert Einstein

[tailor STATELY]

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our" pants. - C. S. Lewis

[Tyrion Cheddar]

'Those who understand see their pants in all, and all, in their pants.'

-Bhagavad-Gita

[tailor STATELY]

"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes" pants" more often." - Oliver Herford

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Some day, all this will be yours."

"What, the pants?"

--Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[tailor STATELY]

Serendipitous !

"I am the weakest [of your knights], I know, and the dullest-minded,
So my death would be the least loss, if truth should be told;
Only because you are my uncle am I to be praised,
No virtue I know in myself but your" pants. - Sir Gwain and the Green Knight

[Danik 2016]

Lol!

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your pants"
Winston Churchill

[tailor STATELY]

"I'm afraid of losing my" pants". Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery." - Aldous Huxley

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to pants without civilization in between."

--Oscar Wilde

[tailor STATELY]

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of" pants. - William Shakespeare

[Danik 2016]

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own pants according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka (not sure about autenticity)

[tailor STATELY]

"Only you can control your" pants. - Dr. Seuss

[Danik 2016]

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the pants."
—A. A. Milne

[tailor STATELY]

"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the" pants" and waiting for the echo." - Don Marquis

[Danik 2016]

Lol!
“Without pants, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

[tailor STATELY]

"America is a poem in our eyes; its ample" pants" dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Pursue some pants, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."

--Henry David Thoreau

[North Star]

“You cannot protect yourself from pants without protecting yourself from happiness” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

[Danik 2016]

True, NS!

"Pants is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
—Albert Einstein

[North Star]

“In reality there are as many pants as there are individuals.” - Gandhi

[Danik 2016]

"I don’t deserve these pants, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either."
—Jack Benny

[North Star]

“There are no great pants. There are great challenges ordinary pants must take forced by circumstances.” General Halsey

[tailor STATELY]

"He was a wise man who invented" pants. - Plato

[Danik 2016]

Progress is impossible without pants, and those who cannot change their pants cannot change anything.
Bernhard Shaw
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_bernard_shaw.html

[tailor STATELY]

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their" pants" should not choke the fire they have lit." - H. G. Wells

[Danik 2016]

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely pants." –Amelia Earhart

[tailor STATELY]

"The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white" pants. - Gustave Flaubert

[Danik 2016]

Lol!

"Don't join the pants burners. Do not think you are going to conceal pants by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Read more at: [url]http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/dwightdei134723.html?src=t_book[/

[tailor STATELY]

"There is no truth. There is only "pants. - Gustave Flaubert

[Danik 2016]

“Be not afraid of pants. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James

Read more: http://www.keepinspiring.me/positive-inspirational-life-quotes/#ixzz4HGi6MZyn

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"Strange women lying in" pants" distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." - Monte Python and the Holy Grail

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“It does not do to dwell on pants and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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Morpheus: "What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your" pants", driving you mad." - The Matrix

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Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Pants?

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"Herman" Pants" was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth." - Edward Dahlberg

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"If you set your "pants" ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. -James Cameron

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"The delightful attention of women, almost the sole aim of man's pants..."---pushkin

I wonder if, surprisingly, that works?

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lol

"If you look at what you have in pants, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in pants, you'll never have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

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and in that same possibly but hopefully not vulgar vein tailor,

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the pants. --helen Keller--

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“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including pants." — Anne Lamott

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“When you reach the end of your pants, tie a knot in it and hang on.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt

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lol... love that dude :)

"I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our pants." - Bryce Dallas Howard

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maybe they are amish pants?

"Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live...at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance – just one chance – to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they’ll never take our pants!"--William Wallace from Braveheart

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Another possible relative! My Great-Grandfather was William Wallace (lastname) with roots in Scotland :)

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without pants.” — Oscar Wilde

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heck tailor, i wonder how far back genealogy goes in scotland?

now i heard oscar wilde had some peculiar thoughts about things!

"im going to make him pants he cant refuse."--the godfather

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“Pants are the highest form of literature.” - Alfred Hitchcock

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I love puns, though im not going at doing them.

"drama is real life with all the pants parts cut out." --Alfred Hitchcock

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lol

"Everybody line up alphabetically according to your pants." - Casey Stengel

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i read a biography on him many years ago and enjoyed it.

"I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great pants." --casey stengal

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lol...

"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no pants." - Edward Teller

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"My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good pants to fight, you usually win."--Edward teller

and interesting timing tailior:

https://screenrant.com/wonder-woman-pants-most-controversial-costume-fans-hate/

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Timely indeed :)

"A lack of pants results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity." - Dalai Lama

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who wants to see wonder woman in pants!

I agree with the dalai lama!

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, at least don’t pants them.”--dalai lama

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D.L. - smart man

"Time flies over us, but leaves its pants behind." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her pants!”― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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lol

"The young man who has not pants is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."
Dialogues in Limbo (1925) - George Santayana

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that seems right to me.

"A country without pants is a country of madmen."--Santayana.

that seems right to me too, I should read some Santayana.

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lol

"I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from pants." - Nikola Tesla

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ive heard that tesla was the original workplace sexual harasser.

although maybe he had a good reason...

"I don’t regret that others stole my pants. I am sorry they don’t have their own."--Nikola Tesla

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Tesla... Really ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Guess it continues then in his memory: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/14/tesla-sexual-harassment/

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your pants.” -Maya Angelou

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my goodness there is a lot about his life isn't there?

changing pants---I was trying to find a YouTube short I saw recently about an actual grizzly bear charge that got spliced into two guys walking away afterwards, having scared it away, with doodie running down both sides of their pants.

oh, I found the thing she said immediately after your quote:

"This is a wonderful day, I have never seen these pants before."--maya angelou

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bear: lol

Maya: :)

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without pants." - Jean Cocteau

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the only thing worse than death must be naked death.

"French people are Italian people in bad pants.''--jean cocteau

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lol!

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his pants." - Oprah Winfrey

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“One of the greatest gifts you can give is your undivided pants.” --Oprah Winfrey

I think that would be a skirt then...

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So true...

"Without pants, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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"It is hard enough to remember my pants, without also remembering my reasons for them."--Friedrich Nietzsche

just a few days ago I mentioned to someone how inaccessible Nietzsche is, but those seem pretty straight forward.

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lol !

"Pants have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content." - Paul Valery

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that was a good one, and in the same vein:

"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his pants more keenly."--Paul Valery

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lol

"He who has laughter on his side has no need of pants." - Theodor W. Adorno

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Adorno while emiting the maxim above:
https://twitter.com/hering_david/status/1535515092996997122

'Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.'
Baltasar Gracian

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Lol... after reading Adorno's wiki yesterday and an interview with Julio Cortázar today
https://www.itinerariesofahummingbird.com/julio-cortazar.html I'm quite confused about the cat :)

“May your choices reflect your hopes not your pants” - Nelson Mandela

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Sorry! Cat Teodoro W. Adorno was a homage to the philosopher. I think Bounty would also like to meet that philosophical cat.



I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!

Akira Toriyama
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/pants-quotes

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“Pants never last. one day you wake up and they're gone.”-- Akira Toriyama

and then we can hope whoever that is has "laughter on his side!"

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"Hip-hop is not about pants. Hip-hop is not about being a gangster." - KRS-One

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I think I have seen some pretty whacky pants on hip hop singers but I can agree its not about pants.

inspired by the gangster...

“I’m gonna make him pants he can’t refuse.”–-Don Vito Corleone

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Profound!

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their pants." - James Russell Lowell

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yes, and so by contrast then:

“A wise man travels to discover pants.”--James Russell Lowell

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"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
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/pants-quotes

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"Music should strike fire from the pants of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman." - Ludwig van Beethoven

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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)

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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.

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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.

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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

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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

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No, I think Maya was pretty open minded in both :)

"Diseased pants oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions." - Shakespeare, (Henry IV)

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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

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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

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the poor fellow goes from bad to worse!

"I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no pants." --Gustave Flaubert

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Lol, a dystopian future it seems...

“What has been affirmed without pants can also be denied without pants.” - Euclid

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at the ancient greek weekly math meetings, clothing was optional. back then girls were highly encouraged to study STEM even though the T and E weren't invented yet.

nevertheless...

"To teach trigonometry is nothing but to put together, and compare, with one another, the measurements of pants."--euclid

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Had to look up STEM:
is a common abbreviation for four closely connected areas of study: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The fields are often associated due to the similarities that they share both in theory and practice."... https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/stem/what-does-stem-mean-for-you#:~:text=STEM%20is%20a%20common%20abbreviation, both%20in%20theory%20and%20practice.

lol... that Euclid was one rivet short of a pair of blue jeans.

"Pants have a soul." - Pythagoras

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I must take some of that back, of course the ancient greeks had E---duh!

“Above all things, respect pants.”--Pythagoras. that must be a corollary to his pants have souls sentiment.

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Absolutely!

"Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your pants." - Eddie Rickenbacker... hence the idiom was termed: "flying by the seat of one's pants :)

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hah, good one!

“Most of one's troubles in this world come from something inside one's pants.”― Eddie Rickenbacker

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lol...

"When an author is too meticulous about his pants, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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ive heard that said about Oscar wilde.

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of pants." --Lucius Annaeus Seneca

another early advocate of nudist camps!

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lol...

"If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with pants is more interesting." - Kirk Douglas

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apparently kirk douglas was in the anti-nudist camp camp.

"Fame is as much about pants as it is about talent, perhaps more."--Kirk Douglas

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“You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your pants, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.” - Horatio Nelson

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i think the pants worship school, of which horatio seems to have been a devotee, was founded by William Wallace from Braveheart---they can take our freedom, but they can never take our pants!

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Lol...

"Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn’t feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your pants, that would just feel weird." - Miuccia Prada

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the devil wears pants!.

I don't know if prada is his preferred brand though.