The lion's skin is never cheap. [ Proverb ]
The wolf must die in his own skin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
And all the carnal beauty of my wife
Is but skin-deep. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]
It is good to sleep in a whole skin. [ Proverb ]
Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin. [ Proverb ]
You can have no more of a cat than a skin. [ Proverb ]
In form so delicate, so soft his skin.
So fair in feature, and so smooth his chin.
Quite to unman him nothing wants but this;
Put him in coats, and he's a very miss. [ Horace ]
What, is the jay more precious than the lark,
Because his feathers are more beautiful?
Or is the adder better than the eel,
Because his painted skin contents the eye? [ William Shakespeare ]
All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep. [ Ralph Venning ]
A Scots mist will wet an Englishman to the skin. [ Proverb ]
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. [ Byron ]
Sell not the bear-skin before you have caught him. [ Proverb ]
The man that once did sell the lion's skin
While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. [ William Shakespeare ]
As soon goes the lamb's skin to the market as the ewe's. [ Proverb ]
Beauty is but skin deep; within is filth and putrefaction. [ Proverb ]
If you eat a pudding at home, your dog shall have the skin. [ Proverb ]
Beauty is a quality of the heart. It is more than skin deep.
It will be long enough ere you wish your skin full of oilet holes. [ Proverb ]
One may discern an ass shrouded in a lion's skin without spectacles. [ Proverb ]
Up start as many aches in his bones, as there are ouches in his skin. [ George Chapman ]
He bought the fox-skin for threepence, and sold the tail for a shilling. [ Proverb ]
When the lion's skin cannot prevail, a little of the fox's must be used. [ Lysander ]
Character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
Dost thou now fall over to my foes? Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. [ William Shakespeare ]
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. [ Landor ]
I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, I helped skin Bob.
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? [ William Shakespeare ]
He was a kind and thankful toad, whose heart dilated in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer; and whose spirits rose with eating, as some men's do with drink. [ Washington Irving ]
When I heard that trees grow a new ring
for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that: we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all our skin layers. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
A man's name is not like a mantle, which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which like the skin has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. [ Goethe ]
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. [ Lytton ]
If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, and to discern the smallest hair upon the leg of a gnat, it would be a curse, and not a blessing to us; it would make all things appear rugged and deformed; the most finely polished crystal would be uneven and rough; the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset all over with rugged scales and bristly hair. [ Bentley ]