To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compar...ed with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, you look so pretty in it Honey, can I jump on it sometime?... Yes, I just wanna see If it's really that expensive kind You know it balances on your head Just like a mattress balances On a bottle of wine Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Calico Pie, The little Birds fly... Down to the calico tree, Their wings were blue, And they sang "Tilly-loo!" Till away they flew-- And they never came back to me!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human b...eing, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An old man, sir, and his wits are not so blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but, in faith, honest as the skin between h...is brows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why, my skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown; I am withered like an old apple-j...ohn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did no...t know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, t...hen in my flesh I shall see God,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »