A Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Nicolas Chamfort
French - Writer
April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794

You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'.

John Climacus

When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.

Paul Kalanithi

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.

Lenny Bruce

If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.

Austin O'Malley

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

Robert Hooke

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

Artie Shaw

It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts.

Thomas Paine

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

Patricia Cornwell

If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.

Dave Barry

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

Ben Stein

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

Jane Fonda

I always thought Jon Stewart was an extremely good surgeon with his scalpel. He would have Republicans on who, I guess, were unclear about what Stewart was up to, and while Jon Stewart was being nice, he was building a case for drowning them.

Greg Gutfeld

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

Jane Fonda

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.