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"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell." »Marita Bonner
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"It is easier to port a shell than a shell script." »Larry Wall
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"[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit." »Battaille
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"In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is." »Francis Quarles
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"Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy shell to DOS..." »Anonymous
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"I have no life, just e-mail." »Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip)
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"How much money did you make last year Mail it in. suggestion for a simplified tax form" »Stanton Delaplane
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"I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. (on why she was fearful of her husband running for president)" »Alma Powell
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"Tommy Fat guy in a little coat." »Tommy Boy
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"Wear the old coat and buy the new book." »Austin Phelps
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"Under a ragged coat lies wisdom." »Romanian Proverb
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"Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat." »Caecilius Statius
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"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn." »John Updike
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"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick." »William Butler Yeats
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"Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails." »Clarence Darrow
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"You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul." »Charles De Gaulle
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." »Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul." »Victor Hugo
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"I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within!" »Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King
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"The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell." »Willmott
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"I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police." »Janina Atkins
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"It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you." »Ernest Rutheford
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy." »Peter De Vries
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"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity." »Frances Watkins Harper
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"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity." »Frances Watkins Harper
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"I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton
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