A Quote by Mark Twain

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Mark Twain

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper. I was a taxidermist.

Gene Pitney

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

Yann Martel

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

Camille Paglia

When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.

Noam Chomsky

I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat's eye - a fake one - made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.

Nick Antosca

Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate itself. Desacralization is a process that allows us to sever any relationship we might feel to other living things. By draining the aliveness out of things, we can pretend that our control and manipulation are of little consequence. Man the trapper becomes man the taxidermist, disemboweling nature of its spontaneity and movement, and stuffing it with a leaden inanimateness.

Jeremy Rifkin

My father was a taxidermist, not a run-of-the-mill profession for a West Indian immigrant. Having given up on becoming a vet, he settled for working with dead animals rather than live ones. Dad was a true craftsman, an artist.

David Lammy

Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommé. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.

Patricia Marx

[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

Yann Martel

I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it’s really quite tight.

Eddie Izzard

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Denis Healey

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Reggie Jackson

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Horace Mann

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.

Charles Darwin

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