Bone And Skin, Two Millers Thin, Would Starve Us All, Or Near I

Bone And Skin, Two Millers Thin, Would Starve Us All, Or Near I

Home › Fortune Cookies › Miscellaneous Collections

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 (1691-1763)
-- Epigram on Two Monopolists

Related:

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone.
MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musicia
ow a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear....
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. -- Parker's Law
Parker's Law: Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. -- Redd Foxx
Beauty is only skin deep, but Ugly goes straight to the bone.