Digestion Quotes

• It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Sex, Exercise

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• Exercise will aid in the work of digestion. Take a walk after a meal; but no violent exercise after a full meal.

  Ellen G. White

  Exercise, Meals, Violent

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• Quite literally, your gut is the epicenter of your mental and physical health. If you want better immunity, efficient digestion, improved clarity and balance, focus on rebuilding your gut health

  Kris Carr

  Focus, Balance, Want

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• I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

  Walt Whitman

  Exercise, Past, America

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Complete Prose Works”, p.515, Walt Whitman

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• A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Food, Men, Cooking

  The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

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• Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sex, Sleep, Animal

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.10, BookBaby

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• Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

  George Herbert

  Mistake, Literature, Language

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• Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

  Lin Yutang

  Ayurveda, Matter

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• A good digestion turneth all to health.

  George Herbert

  Ayurveda, Good Digestion

  The Temple 'The Church Porch' (1633)

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• When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Sleep, Sound Doctrine

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• Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Taste

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 236

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• Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

  Emile Souvestre

  Food, Ayurveda, Doe

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• Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Men, Hands

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.243

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• Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

  Desmond Tutu

  Blood, Pressure, Resentment

  ""Truth and reconciliation"". BBC Focus on Africa magazine, January-March 2000.

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• What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

  Eve Arnold

  Curiosity, Needs, Photographer

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• Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hate, Men, Needs

  Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

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• Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was in accordance with true medical principles.

  Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

  Laughter, Health, Exercise

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• In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is necessary to conceive of the brain as a peculiar organ, specially designed for the production thereof, just as the stomach is designed to effect digestion, the liver to filter the bile, the parotids and the maxillary and sublingual glands to prepare the salivary juices.

  Pierre Jean George Cabanis

  Self, Order, Brain

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• The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

  Susan Sontag

  Witty, Exercise, Men

  "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.

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• It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Greek, Doubt

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• A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.

  John Henry Newman

  Knowledge, Science, Intellectual

  John Henry Newman (1852). “Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin”, p.144

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• Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

  John Dryden

  Food, Waiting, Cooking

  John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”

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• For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Father, Feet, Air

  Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.334, Stanford University Press

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