Quotes About Anatomy

God gave us all a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time.

The human body was a thing of beauty because so many structures protected the heart, but she realized that the human heart simply could not be protected, not by muscle, not by bone, not by anything.

But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.

I watched my friend Eleanor give birth, she said. Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's not much more than a reconstituted ham and cheese sandwich. Just a little anagram of you and what you've been eating for nine months.

Which is it, she asked. Is it CLIToris or clotORis? I didn't know. Why didn't I know? It may depend on which you have, I said.

La mayoría de los hombres tienen el dedo anular más largo que el dedo índice, y la mayoría de las mujeres tienen el índice más largo que el anular.

He tried the diversion of reciting all the bones in the body, working down the left side, down to the toes and then back up. Each toe and finger separately, just to waste time. He lost his place somewhere on the right hand.

Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you and never find it—slice yourself open and all you'll find is blood and muscle and bone...

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

What initially drew him to anatomy he felt once again on this leafy path: the sheer abundance of life, the heat of it, the connection of things, the mat of roots under the soil, so like blood and bones, the wild potato vines like arteries, the honeybees' hive, so like a heart. If he could take one thing with him to eternity, it would be the way he felt right now.

A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.

A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.

ADAM'S APPLE, n. A protuberance on the throat of a man, thoughtfully provided by Nature to keep the rope in place.

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

No. Just no. The hairiness, and the lumpiness, and the great big fumbling fingers and … balls. I mean, balls. What's that about? That is one singularly unattractive piece of anatomy. That is just … that is bad design, is what that is

Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

It is estimated that humans are capable of more than ten thousand different facial expressions (Ekman, 2003, 14–15).

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

Tell him I write of worms and corruption, because I like worms and corruption. Tell him I believe in the fundamental wickedness and worthlessness of man, & in the rot in life. Tell him I am all for cancers. And tell him, too, that I loathe poetry. I'd prefer to be an anatomist or the keeper of a morgue any day. Tell him I live exclusively on toenails and rumours. I sleep in a coffin too, and a wormy shroud is my summer suit.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

This goes in the Turd cutter

No hay en todo el Universo chapuza más grande ni trasto peor hecho que el cuerpo humano. Sólo las orejas, pegadas al cráneo de cualquier modo, ya bastarían para descalificarlo. Los pies son ridículos; las tripas, asquerosas. Todas las calaveras tienen una cara de risa que no viene a cuento. De todo ello los seres humanos sólo son culpables hasta cierto punto. La verdad es que tuvieron mala suerte con la evolución.

Confucius say: "Baseball wrong — man with four balls cannot walk."

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.