Indigestion Quotes

• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ayurveda, Digestion

  Les Miserables 'Fantine', Bk III, Ch. 7

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• I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life, Success, Good Night

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.77, Oxford University Press

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• I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Thank You, Thankful

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• I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Add, Excess, May

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Drinking, Drunk, Ignorant

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.26, Editorial MAXTOR

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• He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Reap

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• Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Love, Starvation, Dies

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• Eating words has never given me indigestion.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Health, Apology

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Communication, Language, Greetings

  A Poet's Proverbs 'Of Tact'

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• A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

  Minna Antrim

  Complaining, Fool, Moral

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• Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

  Naveen Jain

  Opportunity, Focus, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2017

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• I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

  Winston Churchill

  Humorous, Eating

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• It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

  Warren Rudman

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

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• Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Family, Food, Memorable

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.640, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

  Charles Dudley Warner

  War, Hate, Men

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

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• Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

  Naveen Jain

  Opportunity, Focus, Entrepreneur

  "10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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• Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

  Etty Hillesum

  Greed, Intellectual, Information

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.146, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

  Cindy Crawford

  Drug, Causes, Sides

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• Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Mistake, Food

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.128, University of Georgia Press

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• Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, War, Dark

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5983, Delphi Classics

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• Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

  Chanakya

  Taken, Medicine, Drunk

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• Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

  Gertrude Stein

  Evil, Giving, Too Much

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.92, Random House

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• Sometimes it's hard to tell what's love and what's only indigestion

  Janet Evanovich

  Sometimes, Hard

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• What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Simple, Cases, Seems

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• Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Inspirational, Reality, Appetite For Life

  Harry Allen Overstreet (1931). “The Enduring Quest: A Search for a Philosophy of Life”

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