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"The foolish and the dead alone never change their pants." - James Russell Lowell
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Profound!
"The foolish and the dead alone never change their pants." - James Russell Lowell
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
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/pants-quotes
"Music should strike fire from the pants of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman." - Ludwig van Beethoven
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
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by bounty
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
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)
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
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
Lol, a dystopian future it seems...
“What has been affirmed without pants can also be denied without pants.” - Euclid
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
Had to look up STEM:... https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsro...nd%20practice.Quote:
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."
lol... that Euclid was one rivet short of a pair of blue jeans.
"Pants have a soul." - Pythagoras
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.
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 :)
hah, good one!
“Most of one's troubles in this world come from something inside one's pants.”― Eddie Rickenbacker
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
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!
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
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
“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
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!
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
the devil wears pants!.
I don't know if prada is his preferred brand though.
"I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Pants - it's a different story.” - Christian Louboutin
boy these fashion designer types really have it in for pants don't they!
here are a bunch of interesting and insightful louboutin quotes, lots of them about shoes: https://www.inspiringquotes.us/autho...tian-Louboutin
“Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on pants.”--Christian Louboutin
especially in store dressing rooms, I mean c'mon.
Who knew that shoes were so sensual?... aside from Nike of course.
"The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in pants." - Mark Twain
I have a book on shoes but its more of a visual catalog than an explanation of things. I think that topic would make for some interesting reading.
"politicians and pants must be changed often, and for the same reason."--mark twain
(I barely changed the original intent of that quote)
Lol...
"If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his pants away." - W. H. Auden
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with pants.”--w.h. Auden
apparently the opposite of the fashion designers.
I knew there was a reason I struggle with poetry.
lol... Poetry is easy, just find a pen who is a poet and write :) For the life of me I couldn't decipher Auden's original quote that I offered and substituting "pants" really threw it under the bus.
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change pants yourself." - Andy Warhol
wait what, poets saying things readers don't understand! laughs...
"I want to die with my blue jeans on." --andy Warhol
didn't have to change a thing!
"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and pants." - Andre Maurois
imagine the romantic love we might be having had pants NOT been invented?
its shockingly surprising difficult to find quotes ABOUT the middle ages as opposed to quotes FROM the middle ages. what the heck search engine??
"what progress we are making. in the middle ages they would have burned me. now they are content with burning my pants." --Sigmund freud