where there's no sense there's no feeling
where there's no sense there's no feeling proverb: a living thing of little or no intelligence does not feel pain or other negative sensations.
Proverb
where there's no sense there's no feeling
- A living thing of little or no intelligence does not feel pain or other negative sensations.
- 'Where there's no sense there's no feeling,' they would say when they had hurt some creature by accident or through carelessness. By sense they meant wits or understanding, and these they imagined purely human attributes.1945, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford
- Mrs. Hooper says where there's no sense there's no feeling, but I do feel it. It hurts.1948, Audrey Lillian Barker, Innocents: Variations on a Theme, page 96
Questions about where there's no sense there's no feeling
- What does where there's no sense there's no feeling mean?
- Where there's no sense there's no feeling means a living thing of little or no intelligence does not feel pain or other negative sensations.
- What part of speech is where there's no sense there's no feeling?
- Where there's no sense there's no feeling is a proverb.
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