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Skin Quotes

Skin is the largest organ in our body and accounts for around 16 percent of the body weight.!! It is the first line of defence against foreign substances entering the body as well as protecting the body from trauma. It regulates body temperature and its slight acidity protects us from bacteria and other microorganisms. It's the pigment Melanin in the skin that gives it the color!! Physical description and functional attributes apart, let's see what famous personalities have got to say on this amazing organ of our body.

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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-- Dorothy Parker

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
-- Joseph Campbell

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great.
-- John Corbett

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. -- Samuel Ullman
There's nothing nicer than a girl who looks happy and comfortable in her own skin.
-- Peter Andre
The heart never knows the colour of the skin.
-- George, Chief Dan
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
-- Nelson Mandela
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. -- Frederick Buechner

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
-- Kofi Annan

A thick skin is a gift from God. -- Konrad Adenauer

Failures are like skinned knees -- painful, but superficial. -- H. Ross Perot

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.
-- Matthew Henry

You may cover whole skins of parchment with limitations, but power alone can limit power. -- John Randolph

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want- an adorable pancreas?
-- Jean Kerr

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
-- Frederick Douglass

For me and for every woman the most important is to have a healthy skin, and also to take care of your body. I clean my face with a special soap my doctor gave me, and when possible I go to the gym.
-- Daniela Urzi

But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
-- Lord Byron

Comments

  1. Anonymous8:50 AM

    Being beautiful really is not just looking beautiful. You must feel you are beautiful inside, that means you are healthy inside. And feel beautiful outside, being flawless white.

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  2. Dharma11:59 AM

    I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

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