Flesh

Flesh

In vertebrate animals, flesh is the colloquial term for biological tissue which consists of skeletal muscles and fat as opposed to bones, viscera and integuments. Flesh may be used as food, in which case it commonly is called meat.

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Famous quotes containing the word flesh:

    “O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
    Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
    Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
    His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “We wish to know more but we are never sated
    No wonder some folks think the flesh is overrated!”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)