If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform. — Harriet Quimby
I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine. — Jessica Simpson
That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans. — Slash
That turned-up collar. The jacket that zipped all the way down the front into a nice fitted shape. The white denim that made my untanned skin look like a color. — Tina Fey
A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown. — Yohji Yamamoto
I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely. — Ariana Grande
Borrowed clothes are either too tight or too loose. — Filipino Proverbs
I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer. — Katerina Graham
A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest. — Royce Gracie
Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver. — Constance Markievicz
Ah well... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let’s go. — J. K. Rowling
Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe. — Jean Harlow
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. — Ronnie Spector
I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I've got all kinds. — Amanda Seyfried
Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches. — Frances Hardinge
Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. — Zebulon Pike
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches. — Henry David Thoreau
There's no taking trout with dry breeches. — Miguel de Cervantes
Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men. — Elizabeth Aston
He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose. — Benjamin Franklin
All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system. — Tommy McCarthy
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. — Lord Byron
The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride. — Benjamin Franklin
Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner. — Austin O'Malley
Trousers Quotes
The dog will always attack the one with torn trousers. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. — T. S. Eliot
All a woman needs to be chic is a raincoat, two suits, a pair of trousers and a cashmere sweater — Hubert de Givenchy
Lazy people will eventually lose even their trousers. — Filipino Proverbs
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all. — Andy Warhol
Im boyish with a feminine twist. I definitely gravitate toward oversized things like shirts and jackets. I like a good trouser, but then I might mix it up with something more feminine, like a pointy boot or pumps. — Jacquelyn Jablonski
If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers! — Vladimir Mayakovsky
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
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. — Bruce Dickinson
I hate wearing trousers and shoes. I wear jeans and sneakers most of the time. — Mark Webber
Short Pants Quotes
See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs,
And mounts exulting on triumphant wings;
Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,
Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. — Alexander Pope
I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso - it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly. — Matthew Gray Gubler
I think my daughter actually influences my style more than having boys. I tend to dress more masculine with pants or shorts or flat boots, and she makes me want to dress more stylish, more girly. — Kourtney Kardashian
The unpadded shoulders, the three-buttoned long and boxy coat, the too-short, thin pants, and the thin ties with striped buttoned shirts in dark colors-well, I suppose this may go very well with some personalities but it's not for me. To me, all such look like TV producers. Maybe they want to. — Fred Astaire
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph. — Jackie Cooper
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus
My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts. — Chris LeDoux
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. — Alexander Pope
I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself. — Aidan Quinn
Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl. — Kenneth R. Miller
I like the pleasant things most women enjoy, even if I do wear breeches and boots on an expedition, even sleep in them at times.... but I powder my nose before going on deck, no matter how rough the sea is. — Louise Boyd
All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark. — Laurence Sterne
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches! — William Makepeace Thackeray
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace. — Wendell Phillips
Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart. — Diana Gabaldon
I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much. — Ruth Simmons
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches. — George Canning
Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable. — Henry David Thoreau
Enemy giants moved towards the breech, and Tyson picked up the fallen warrior’s club. He yelled something to his fellow blacksmiths – probably ‘FOR POSEIDON!’ – but with his mouth full of peanut butter it sounded like, ‘PUH PTEH BUN.’ His brethren all grabbed hammers and chisels, yelled, ‘PEANUT BUTTER!’ and charged behind Tyson into battle. — Rick Riordan
To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine. — William Booth
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. - How beautiful are the retired flowers! how would they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out, "admire me I am a violet! dote upon me I am a primrose!" — John Keats
He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches. — John Aubrey
you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody. — Ellen Glasgow
It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both. — Samuel Johnson
I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves. — Gail Carriger
Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich. And would you be contemplating an attack, at all?" "It had crossed my mind, I must admit," said Jack. "Indeed, I may go so far as to say, that I am afraid a conflict is now virtually inevitable. Did you notice we have cleared for action? — Patrick O'Brian
Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och, well, in that case. Anthony: That's quite low enough, my dear... Roslynn: I was only trying to help, Anthony: Commendable, but we want the chap to ogle you, not bust his breeches. — Johanna Lindsey
When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment. — Charles Dickens
Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait — Blaise Cendrars
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