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For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, thememoryof Macaulay, thefigure of Juno, and thehide of a rhinoceros.

- Ethel Barrymore
Quoted in George  Jean Nathan The Theatre in the Fifties (1953).

I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use the leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten 'em.

- (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
  The Bad Child's Book of Beasts,'The Hippopotamus'.

And said to the mountains and rocks,Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his 126 wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 6:16^17.

Hood an ass with reverend purple, So you can hide his two ambitious ears, And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

- Ben Jonson
  Volpone, act1, sc.3.

   He can run, but he can't hide.

-Joe pseudonym of  Joseph Louis Barrow Louis
  Said during a bout against Billy Conn.

Smarter than most of his colleagues in theTruman cabinet, but not smart enough to hide it.

-James B(arrett) Reston
  Of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Deadline.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself inThee, Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

- Augustus Montague Toplady
  Hymn.