Good Digestion Quotes - Page 2

• Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

  Iris Murdoch

  Reading, Thinking, Important

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.30, Penguin

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• I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Hurt, Ice Cream, Digestion

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

  Alberto Manguel

  Writing, Library, Sake

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.169, Vintage Canada

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• The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Church, Digestion, Ill

  BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.250, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Eating apples is good on so many levels. There's fiber in the skin that's really good for you. It helps with digestion and helps you absorb all the nutrients of everything you've eaten that day. Apples are a really good thing.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Apples, Skins, Levels

  "Rebecca Romijn's Recipes for Success" by Amy Spencer, www.health.com. July 25, 2012.

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• 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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• 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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• Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Bored, Long, Soul

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn't learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were.

  Helen Hayes

  Strong, Horse, Theatre

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.49, Rowman & Littlefield

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• One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.

  Anthony Trollope

  Clever, Mean, Should Have

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn”, p.281, e-artnow

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• Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happiness, Reading, Animal

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.30, Penguin

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• The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.

  John Galsworthy

  Strong, Sex, Weekend

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