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«Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep»

Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: at a time, come off, layer, layered, off, off and on, one at a time, onion, Onions, on and off, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of, peel off, sometimes, take time off, The Onion, time off, weep

«Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it»

Author: James Gibbons Huneker | About: Life | Keywords: layer, onion, Onions, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of, peel off

«Offer the lazy an egg, and they'll want you to peel it for them»

Author: Lithuanian Proverb | Keywords: egg, lazy, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of

«A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away»

Author: Arthur Miller (Playwright) | About: Men | Keywords: an orange, eating away, eat away, orange, oranges, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of

«Emperor? You old fake! / You're no Emperor. You're just an onion. / Now then, little Peer, I'm going to peel you.»

Author: Henrik Ibsen | Keywords: emperor, fake, Now Then, onion, Onions, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peer

«For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.»

Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | Keywords: cook, flavor, flavored, flavors, instant, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of, supersede, superseded, supersedes

«And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, / Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: / Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: bald, day of the month, peeled, Tyrus

«In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: hitherto, hosts, meted out, mete out, peeled, trodden

«She looks as new as a peeled egg»

Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: egg, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of

«Life is an onion and one peels it crying»