“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
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“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
To be ignorant of pants is to remain forever a child.
--Cicero
Even a poor man can receive pants.
--Sophocles
"We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking up men's pants."
--Oscar Wilde
"They may take our pants, but they'll never take our freedom!"
Braveheart (movie), 1995
"That's one small step for pants, one giant leap for Mankind."
--Neil Armstrong
"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
"Let he who is without pants cast the first stone."
"don't shoot until you see the whites of their pants!"
"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.
"The pants are mightier than the sword"- proverb
"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body. Not my pants!"
--Gandhi (1982 movie)
"Every revolution was thought first in one man's pants."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Some men get pants, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona." James Ellroy
"The language of friendship is not words but pants."
--Henry David Thoreau
“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
"It puts the lotion on the pants."
--Buffalo Bill
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the pants."
The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald
"Marley was dead, to begin with. His pants were a different story."
--Charles Dickens
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand" pants" how not to dance."
- e. e. cummings
“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
"The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his" pants. - Elizabeth Bishop
"Maybe all the pants in the whole damn world are scared of each other."
John Steinbeck-Of Mice and Men
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own" pants. - Ayn Rand
“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
"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for extraordinary pants."
--C.S. Lewis
"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our" pants" too far." - George Santayana
"The best part of beauty is that which no pants can express."
--Francis Bacon
"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your" pants" to buy a drink." - e. e. cummings
"Marcela loved me during fifteen pants and eleven contos de reis"
-Machado de Assis-The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
"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
“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”
“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
"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
"When you can walk across the rice paper and leave no trace, you will have pants."
--Kung Fu
“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
“The man in black pants fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” —The Gunslinger (Rob B.)
“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
"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:
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