Quote

HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

Ambrose Bierce

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Action
Sentiments
Reside
Heart
Seats
Organ
Stomach
Evolved
Useful
Fluid
Emotions
Chemical
Emotion
Seat
Food
Chemicals
Gastric
Known
Organs
Figuratively

More quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Image
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable as, the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur..
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread per capita of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
A man is the sum of his ancestors to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
Ambrose Bierce