Second Week, Fourth Day, Book iv. Compare: "Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can’t bear it", John Byrom, Epigram on Two Monopolists.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
Epigram on Two Monopolists as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
“I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.”
“T’ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.”
New CNN host Beck rants: Jimmy Carter biggest "waste of skin"; "at least evil is using" skin of Kim Jong Il
Media Matters for America
2006-02-09
http://mediamatters.org/items/200602090005
2000s
“[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.”
Source: I Hunt Killers
2010s, 2016, April, Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)
The First Revelation, Chapter 6
Context: As the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the Goodness of God, and enclosed. Yea, and more homely: for all these may waste and wear away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole; and more near to us, without any likeness; for truly our Lover desireth that our soul cleave to Him with all its might, and that we be evermore cleaving to His Goodness. For of all things that heart may think, this pleaseth most God, and soonest speedeth.
“Theres nothing sexy about skin and Bone, Urgh, you gotta have some junk in the trunk”
