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Quotes About Digestion

You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?
~ William Carlos Williams
Opinions on the Crown and the government in general tend to make digestion much more of a chore than it should be.
~ Chris Owen
Good digestion is for the bovine.
~ Christina Stead
All yings are time rats, time bandits. Open their guts and what you find inside their digestive tract are the second and minutes of hundreds of men's lives. Time cannibals. All those broken minute and hour hands just lying undigested in their stomach. It makes me want to drink.
~ Christopher G. Moore
To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely To you who sleep a lot because you are bored To you who cry a lot because you are sad I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered Like you would chew on rice. Anyway life is something that you need to digest. From 'Rice' by Chun Yang Hee
~ Helen Oyeyemi
To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely To you who sleep a lot because you are bored To you who cry a lot because you are sad I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered Like you would chew on rice. Anyway life is something that you need to digest. —CHUN YANG HEE
~ Helen Oyeyemi
this gives me distance from the remark. I acknowledge the person, let her know I need time to digest it, and tell her I'll get back to her shortly. I then assess what I've heard to determine what is true about it and what isn't. If I feel the need, I talk it out with a trusted friend. Here is the method Andrea Zintz, career coach
~ Helene Lerner
Having finished the newspaper, a second cup of coffee, and a kalatch with butter, he got up, brushed the crumbs from his waistcoat and, expanding his broad chest, smiled joyfully, not because there was anything especially pleasant in his heart - the smile was evoked by good digestion.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Mi estómago era el lugar donde se asentaba la sociedad, pero también el punto por donde me unía con todos los elementos de la tierra.
~ Leonora Carrington
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.
~ Nikola Tesla
The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.
~ Ivan Pavlov
Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
marigolds were healing for open wounds, ulcers, and skin sores. Chamomile was an aid to digestion and a mild wash for wounds, and the wild rose petals floating in a bowl of water in the sun were a fragrant astringent skin lotion.
~ Jean M. Auel
Eating was easy. Thinking was hard.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Work does not kill you, food does. God does not kill you, food does. Food is your first and last enemy. If you take in more than you can handle, it takes all of your energy to digest it.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Gut health is the key to overall health.
~ Kris Carr
I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost perfect assimilation, so everything I eat is assimilated, not lost.
~ Raymond Burr
Eat grass, throw up. Doesn't sound like fun, but is.
~ Unknown
HCl is the formula for hydrochloric acid," the label began, and explained that this acid is an aid to human digestion. Then the unexpected detail: the see-through pipes were filled with human vomit, "donated by anonymous patients from a bulimic clinic." You admire the artistry and form, and then, told what it represented, you gaze with nauseated horror.
~ Paul Theroux
The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.
~ Mary MacLane
Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
~ W. H. Auden