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Organ Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that…
- POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience,…
- LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it…
- PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
- PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes…
- LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to…
- RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
- NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor,…
- PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes…
More Organ Quotes
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being… — Dan Aykroyd
- I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ. — Tracy Chapman
- Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. — Winston Churchill
- I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I… — George Clooney
- There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was… — Christopher Hitchens
- In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the… — Albert Einstein
- We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- If an organ gets a "dis-ease" you want to care for it like a wounded friend, not an enemy who's turned against… — Judith Orloff