Good Digestion Quotes

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

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, Digestion, Appetite

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

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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 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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• A good digestion turneth all to health.

  George Herbert

  Ayurveda, Digestion

  The Temple 'The Church Porch' (1633)

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

  Zona Gale

  Preparation, Digestion, Knows

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

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

  Samuel Butler

  Healthy, Digestion, Conservative

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

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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, Digestion

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• Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Dinner, Process, Should

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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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• 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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• A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Sick

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blood, Skins, Next

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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, Digestion, Lord

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• 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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• 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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• His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Light, Digestion

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

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• Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

  Walter Scott

  Mirth, Digestion, Meat

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The monastery”, p.251

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Understanding, Dinner, Digestion

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