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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

  Zona Gale

  Preparation, Knows, Good Digestion

  Zona Gale (1907). “The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre”

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• DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Imperfection, Wicked

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.57, University of Georgia Press

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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, Eating

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

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• This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Pain, Reflection, Periods

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• Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

  Mary Webb

  Giving, Lord, Thee

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• Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

  Harriet Martineau

  Heart, Men, Literature

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• In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

  Michael Behe

  Eye, Cells, Black

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• The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

  Samuel Butler

  Healthy, Conservative, Stomach

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, Appetite, Good Digestion

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 38

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• The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

  Herbert Read

  Passion, Literature, Assumption

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Loss, Animal, Blood

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• It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Men, Sight, Long

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• Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

  Anthony Trollope

  Power, Looks, Crowds

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.570, ReadHowYouWant.com

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