A Quote by Mark Twain

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Camille Paglia

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

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

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

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

Justine Larbalestier

I don't see a difference between a biological family and an adoptive one. I think the difference is more in the eyes of others around you, who might judge because you're not the same skin color as your parents.

Olivier Rousteing

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

Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.

Enda Kenny

I love that contradiction between the ugly and the nice. It's shot in a very gourmet way in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. But then Grenouille doesn't differentiate between what's commonly considered to be good smells and bad. He just takes it all, like a true collector does.

Tom Tykwer

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