- A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. ~ Meister Eckhart
- Ask me what are my virtues, not about the color of my skin.~ Arabian Proverb
- A thick skin is a gift from God.~ Konrad Adenauer
- A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Beauty is only skin-deep.~ Traditional Proverb
- Beauty to me is being comfortable in your own skin.~ Gwyneth Paltrow
- Even a sheep with the skin of a tiger is afraid of the wolf.~ Chinese Proverb
- Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.~ Mel Brooks
- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.~ Martin Luther King Jr.
- I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.~ Primo Levi
- Just because we’re sisters under the skin doesn’t mean we’ve got much in common.~ Angela Carter
- Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.~ Roland Barthes
- Learn to paint a tiger and you only paint his skin; learn to know a human being and you only know his face.~ Chinese Proverb
- Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.~ Ambrose Bierce
- Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned.~ United States Proverb
- My skin is closer to me than my shirt is.~ Basque Proverb
- No one can take two skins from one ox.~ Russian Proverb
- Of a dead leopard we keep the skin, of man his reputation.~ Chinese Proverb
- Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.~ Paul Engle
- Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.~ Mark Twain
- The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.~ Kin Hubbard
- The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.~ Djuna Barnes
- There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.~ Stephen Carter
- There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.~ Japanese Proverb
- What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.~ August J. Strindberg
- When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.~ Nikita S. Khrushchev
- Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.~ Douglas Macarthur
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