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Skin Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
- REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon…
- APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an…
- For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
- MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and…
More Skin Quotes
- The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. — Benjamin Banneker
- My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world. — Drew Barrymore
- Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or… — Roland Barthes
- Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an… — Glenn Beck
- I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our… — Lake Bell
- Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin… — Robert Benchley
- I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin. — Halle Berry
- Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after… — Annie Besant
- Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. — Ambrose Bierce
- On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies,… — Erma Bombeck
- Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give… — Mel Brooks
- That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat,… — Alton Brown