
As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_11-02-1974_-_NME.
A collection of quotes on the topic of trousers, wear, down, back.
As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_11-02-1974_-_NME.
translation, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
version in original Dutch / citaat van Jopie Huisman, in het Nederlands: Door de jaren heen heb ik van alles en nog wat bewaard aan dingen en voorwerpen die ik in mijn leven in de handel tegenkwam, als ze gevoelswaarde voor me hadden. Altijd eenvoudig gebruiksgoed en gereedschap van de boer, de smid, de timmerman, de bakker enzovoorts. Dingen waarin ik de strijd om het bestaan het duidelijkst weerspiegeld zag vond ik het mooist.. ..afgetrapte oude schoenen, broeken, jassen, hoeden en kindervestjes, die ik in de vodden vond, vaak tot in den treure versteld en opgelapt.
Source: Jopie de Verteller' (2010) - postumous, p. 19
“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”
Dr. Stockmann, Act V
Robert Farquharson translation
An Enemy of the People (1882)
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
“If you wish,
I shall grow irreproachably tender:
not a man, but a cloud in trousers!”
Page 61.
The Cloud in Trousers (1915)
“Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice…”
“I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: I grow old … I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
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.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
“Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.”
Source: Infidel (2007), Chapter 13: Leiden
Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 1, No Guts, No Glory, p. 37.
To Pamela Anderson on the Comedy Central Roast (14 August 2005)
B 12
Variant translation: Everyone has a moral backside, which he does not show except in case of need and which he covers as long as possible with the breeches of respectability.
As quoted in Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten [Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious] (1905) by Sigmund Freud, as translated by James Strachey (1960), p. 100
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1998
1990s
"Written aboard HMS Engadine in 1916, cited in " The Riddle Of Erskine Childers " By Andrew Boyle , Hutchinson, London, (1977), pg. 205.
Literary Years and War (1900-1918)
Detailing his philosophy, (2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/funny_old_game/6366009.stm
Arsenal (1996–present)
So wie wir ein Paar Hosen verwachsen, so verwachsen wir Umgang, Bibliotheken, Grundsätze und dergleichen, zuweilen, ehe sie abgenutzt sind und zuweilen, welches der schlimmste Fall ist, ehe wir neue haben.
Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente (Thoughts, Satires, Fragments), Volume 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=azM4AQAAIAAJ&q=%22So+wie+wir+ein+Paar%22+%22Hosen+verwachsen+so+verwachsen+wir+Umgang+Bibliotheken+Grunds%C3%A4tze+und+dergleichen+zuweilen+ehe+sie+abgenutzt+sind+und+zuweilen+welches+der+schlimmste+Fall+ist+ehe+wir+neue+haben%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage (1907)
“I had my trousers on at all times.”
Anthony Stewart Head at Toronto Trek, July 12, 2003 http://voyageur.idic.ca/Head03.htm
He said he wished I'd leave his cave.
Big Brother's Big Mouth (2004–2007)
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
translation, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
version in original Dutch / citaat van Jopie Huisman, in het Nederlands: In 1973 raakte ik plotseling in grote privéproblemen. Ik was helemaal op mezelf teruggeworpen. Toen vond ik tussen de rommel die broek. Een afgetobde, tachtig keer verstelde, smerige melkersbroek. Ik zag mijzelf daarin, hij weerspiegelde de toestand van mijn ziel. Toen heb ik hem meegenomen en geschilderd [titel: Broek van een koemelker]. Ook omdat andere mensen zich erin herkenden, is het mijn redding geweest. Ik heb er mijn identiteit door teruggevonden. Eigenlijk een zelfportret.
p 60
Jopie Huisman', 1981
“Nobody but a highlander can go about without his trousers.”
Hugger-Mugger
L 26
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)
The Apprentice, Series 4
Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)
Outburst against reporter Jonah Fisher at Luthuli House on 8 April 2010, while president of the ANC youth league and after his return from Zimbabwe, ANC's Julius Malema lashes out at 'misbehaving' BBC journalist https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/anc-julius-malema-bbc-journalist (8 April 2010)
Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 11, “Prisoners” (p. 166)
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 1, pp. 14-15 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
"Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist," WSJ, 2010 http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/19/a-holiday-message-from-ricky-gervais-why-im-an-atheist/
Vol. 4, Part: 1. Chapter 2 Pg. 47 - "Rule of the Sullan Restoration" Translated by W.P. Dickson.
The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 1
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, Ch 1. The Professor Invents a Machine (1933)
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 1, p. 9 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
News of the World, November 1999 https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/category/1999/
“Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.”
Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)