Edward Hopper is the great painter of American hell in the 20th century, the limner-laureate of the beauty, poignance, eternityand bone-ache disquietude of life.

-Allen, Henry Southworth
 In the Washington Post, 25  Jun.

Most games are skin-deep, but cricket goes to the bone.

-Aristotle
  Arlott and Trueman on Cricket.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Stop all the clocks', Collected Poems. Featured in the1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

And the L God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LGod had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said,This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Thereforeshall a manleavehisfatherand hismother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD Genesis 2:21^4.

Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.But put forththinehand now, and touchhisboneand his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 2:4^5.

As for the grass, it grewas scant as hair in leprosyöthin dried blades pricked the mud which underneath looked kneaded up with blood. One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, stood stupefied.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

I am proud that I am an Australian, a daughter of the Southern Cross, a child of the mighty bush. I am thankful I am a peasant, a part of the bone and muscle of my nation, and earn my bread by the sweat of my brow, as man was meant to do. I rejoice I was not born a parasite, one of the blood-suckers who loll on velvet and satin, crushed from the proceeds of human sweat and blood and souls.

-of Bin Bin
My Brilliant Career, ch.38.

Flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

-Milton,John
   Adam to Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.914^16.

Rompre l'os et sucer la substantifique moelle. Break the bone and suck out the very substance.

-Rabelais, Fran c° ois
  Gargantua, Prologue de l'auteur.