You don't get into a pissing contest with a skunk and I got in with a few skunks and I didn't win.

It's just a pissing contest, but unfortunately the contestants never seem to run out of piss.

I'm not calling [William] Weld a skunk. But if you get into a certain kind of contest, you get your shoes wet. I'm not going to pick up his challenge. What he would like most in the world is for me to fire back so he could fire back.

It's pissing me off,

I'd rather have a skunk than a groundhog.

In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.