Trousers Quotes - Page 2

• A man walks into doctor's office. "What seems to be the problem?" asks the doc. "It's ... um ... well ... I have five penises." replies the man. "Blimey!" says the doctor, "How do your trousers fit?" "Like a glove."

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

  Billy Bragg

  Safety Pins, Pairs, Punk

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• A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Arses, Diplomats

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.

  Maisie Williams

  Fun, School, Boys

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• No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Tricks, Wanted

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

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• Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

  Napoleon Hill

  Years, Ideas, Doe

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.260, Penguin

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• While other guitars may have more twang or an esoteric atmosphere, the Les Paul is like a T-Rex thampling everything in it's path .. it can be subtle if you want it to be, but it works best if you have an 'armadillo in your trousers' and you want to articulate that

  Miles Zuniga

  Music, Guitar, Atmosphere

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• Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Cooking, Taste

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• Never trust a man in red trousers

  Mika

  Funny, Men, Clothes

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• And so my music, it doesn't matter if I did it 20 years ago or if I did it tomorrow. It doesn't go with trends. My trousers don't get wider and tighter every six months. My music just stays what it is, and that's the way I like it.

  George Harrison

  Years, Six Months, Trends

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• A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

  Adam Thomson

  Airline Business, Aviation, Lost

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• But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Italian, Oil

  Wyndham Lewis, Scott W. Klein (2010). “Tarr”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• If you've got a CD that's not working, just wipe it on your trousers, and if you're not wearing any trousers, put some on

  John Peel

  Cds, Wipe, Ifs

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• But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

  Theodor Herzl

  Smile, Beautiful, Home

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.

  Stephen Moyer

  Kids, Italian, Sweaters

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• The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

  Alan Bennett

  Science, Two, Medicine

  1973 Habeas Corpus.

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• I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn't operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it's actually also true - if I want to appear in public I want to look my best. If I'm onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.

  Bill Nighy

  Clothes, Want, Suits

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.

  Theophilus London

  Color, Tone, Shirts

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• As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

  Bill Vaughan

  Spring, Night, Men

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• Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

  Timothy Leary

  Christian, Sky, Giving

  "Timothy Leary's Last Trip". Documentary, 1997.

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• Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

  Austin O'Malley

  Reform, Vehement, Pairs

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• I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Cowboy

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• I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.

  Mika

  Kids, Ties, Bows

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• If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Men, Clouds, Wish

  "The Cloud in Trousers" (1915) (translation by George Reavey)

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• The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Men, House, Church

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