A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
Bennett Cerf

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Josh Billings

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

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
Edward Steichen

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Wernher von Braun

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
Bette Midler

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
Mickey Rivers

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.
Evel Knievel

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
Christopher Darden

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
Aaron Neville

I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.
Jarvis Cocker

I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.
Marc Wallice

I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.
Red Grooms

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.
Sally Rand

I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.
Hilary Swank