Top 100 Quotes About Digestion
#1. Incineration does not equal human digestion; eating a fireplace log will not store the same number of calories as burning one will produce.
Timothy Ferriss
#2. With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
Thomas Carlyle
#3. In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#5. The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Voltaire
#6. 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
#7. Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
Robert South
#8. No one knew exactly why the seals ate stones, but maybe, some thought, it was for ballast. Or to help digestion. Or to stave off hunger. Or, as Brown had written in the journal, 'maybe they're just weird.
Susan Casey
#9. What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.
Eve Arnold
#10. I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Zona Gale
#11. 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
#14. Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
Walter Scott
#15. The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.
John Owen
#16. Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.
Herman Melville
#18. 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
#19. Drinking diluted apple cider everyday will make you feel energetic and halt midday sugar cravings. It primarily keeps the digestion in good shape. It also maintains the right balance of insulin and hormonal levels. People with diabetes can benefit from a daily intake of diluted apple cider vinegar.
Steven Cumberland
#20. Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.
Elizabeth Goudge
#21. You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion ... different temperaments ... differences in the capacity to comprehend.
Ramakrishna
#22. Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
Tryon Edwards
#23. The essential thing is to recognize that consciousness is a biological process like digestion, lactation, photosynthesis, or mitosis;
Ray Kurzweil
#24. 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
#26. Lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion.
Walter Scott
#27. 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
#28. Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!
Christopher Smart
#29. Talking about unpleasant things during a meal is not good for digestion, not good for health.
Betty Jamie Chung
#30. Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.
Adalbert De Vogue
#34. An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
Helen Rowland
#35. Digestion is quickly shut down during stress ... The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#36. Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
Desmond Tutu
#38. Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or oxygen, transmit nerve impulses, or move muscles, including the heart.
Mark Kurlansky
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
Salvador Dali
#42. Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?
Oliver Heaviside
#43. My digestion is not mocked!" boomed the Russian. "Nor will I stand idly while Miss Larouche is insulted! You are banished, hedgehog! My digestion has spoken-BEGONE!
James Kennedy
#44. 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
#45. It is impossible to say how many dinners Drawlight was invited to sit down to that day - and it is fortunate that he was never at any time much of an eater or he might have done some lasting damage to his digestion.
Susanna Clarke
#46. A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
C.S. Lewis
#47. As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.
Isaac Watts
#48. There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides, and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process, and hence, you have gas.
Crescent Dragonwagon
#49. 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
#50. All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.
Aristotle.
#51. Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip.
Pope Leo XII
#52. For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion.
Epictetus
#53. I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#54. Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
John Dryden
#55. 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
#56. This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
Brian Ferneyhough
#57. One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.
Adalbert De Vogue
#58. The stomach, when we lie down to rest, should have its work done, that it may enjoy rest, as well as other portions of the body. The work of digestion should not be carried on through any period of the sleeping hours.
Ellen G. White
#59. Laughter aids the digestion. You can eat a huge stew with your schoolmates and digest it with no bother at all, whereas you can get indigestion eating a leaf of lettuce in boring company.
Maurice Messegue
#60. If we can go some way to creating a vibrant anaerobic digestion industry here in the U.K., we will be reaching our goals both in terms of economics and the environment.
Jacob Rothschild
#61. The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#62. Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.
Northrop Frye
#63. Eat your food slowly and chew each bite completely (20-30 chomps is ideal) to facilitate proper digestion.
Mark Sisson
#64. You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.
Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.
I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-
Gregory Maguire
#65. The man who takes up nothing but a newspaper, but reads it to think, to deduct conclusions from its premises, and form a judgment on its opinions, is more fitted for society than he, who having all the current literature and devoting his whole time to its perusal, swallows it all without digestion.
Cecil B. Hartley
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
Mignon McLaughlin
#69. Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.
M.F.K. Fisher
#70. When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
Mason Cooley
#71. 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
#72. It's not good ... Reading and eating at the same time. The stomach needs blood for digestion. When you read, the brain steals the blood. - Fausto
Mark Mills
#73. I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.
Abraham Lincoln
#74. The thing is, if you follow whatever meal you have with Coke, it eats up the other things. It helps with the digestion of it.
Lennon Parham
#75. Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
Oliver Heaviside
#76. Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#77. Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.
John Kao
#78. In the beginning of my job, I had a look: toddler struggling with digestion.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#79. Prana (controls breathing), Apana (controls excretion), Udana (controls speech), Samana (controls digestion), and Vyana (controls circulation) form the five Vayus!
Girish Haridas
#80. Take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool ...
Jonathan Swift
#81. Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#82. The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.
Lynn Coady
#83. Even creating shit is hard to do. First, you need money to buy food. Then you have to chew it, eat it, and swallow. A complex process called digestion follows. Finally, you have to strain and excrete your foul smelling wonder into the world. Try doing that with a paint brush!
Jonathan Heatt
#84. If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.
Chris Kilham
#85. Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.
Fran Lebowitz
#86. What we eat affects our emotions and can create a predisposition for both psychological and physical disorders. Just as wrong emotion can upset our digestion, so wrong digestion can upset our emotions.
Sarah R. Gray
#87. 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
#88. Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
Lin Yutang
#89. 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
#90. There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.
Robert Southey
#91. I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
Jack London
#92. The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.
Sarah Fielding
#93. In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#94. The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
Agnes Repplier
#95. 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
#96. A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.
Benjamin Franklin
#97. Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation ... Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.
Voltaire
#98. Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
Helena Bonham Carter
#99. Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#100. Food that good deserved undisturbed digestion
Chloe Neill
