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Quotes About Digestion

A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
~ Charles Dickens
Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible.
~ H. L. Mencken, 1914
I eat bad poetry like a goat — and eat good poetry like a gourmand.
~ Terri Guillemets
WTFact: The human small intestine can reach up to eight meters in length. Why do you want to know that? Because all knowledge is important, f*ck-face.
~ Gregory Bergman
Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.
~ Gregory of Nyssa
Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible.
~ H. L. Mencken
And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.
~ James Joyce
A lot healthier than getting socked in the stomach. Especially if you had a big breakfast.
~ James Patterson
He's got gas," Aaron explained, his voice muffled by the hand still over his face. "It happens when he eats stuff he's not supposed to." "It's vile," Camael said, glaring at the dog. "Something should be done so that it never happens again.
~ Thomas E. Sniegoski
It is not enough to hear a sermon, but you must eat it down, take in what it commands, and then it will purge your heart...Take the word and digest it, squeeze the juice of it into thy heart, and it will purge thee from all contrary corruption." pg.73
~ Thomas Goodwin
It is not enough to hear a sermon, but you must eat it down, take in what it commands, and then it will purge your heart...Take the word and digest it, squeeze the juice of it into thy heart, and it will purge thee from all contrary corruption.
~ Thomas Goodwin
That food was so bad I can't wait for it to become a turd and leave me.
~ Thomas McGuane
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
Between blasts she resorted to Epictetian philosophy in the form of pepsin chewing gum.
~ O. Henry
Everybody looks at their poop.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Manche Bücher müssen gekostet werden, manche verschlingt man, nur einige wenige kaut man und verdaut sie ganz.
~ Cornelia Funke
Some books should be tasted some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
~ Cornelia Funke
Certi libri vanno assaporati lentamente, altri divorati in un sol boccone. E solo alcuni, pochi, vanno masticati per digerirli completamente.
~ Cornelia Funke
Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give them a stoppage.
~ D.H. Lawrence
lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion.
~ Walter Scott
Typically, raw food takes about 13 hours to go from ingestion to elimination. Cooked and processed foods that are high in fats and animal proteins can take up to 72 hours.
~ Cherie Soria
It would fare but ill with many of us if we were left to superintend our own digestion and circulation. 'Bless me!' one would cry, 'I forgot to wind up my heart this morning! To think that it has been standing still for the last three hours!' 'I can't walk with you this afternoon,' a friend would say, 'as I have no less than eleven dinners to digest. I had to let them stand over from last week, being so busy, and my doctor says he will not answer for the consequences if I wait any longer!'
~ Lewis Carroll
Comparative anatomy teaches us that man resembles frugivorous animals in every thing, and carnivorous in nothing; he has neither claws wherewith to seize his prey, nor distinct and pointed teeth to tear the living fibre... 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
My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like — just don't swallow it.
~ Harry Secombe