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Quotes About Digestion

You don't spell it, son. You eat it.
~ John Hughes
The chili I ate made for an explosive bathroom experience. I don't know how to put this delicately, but I missed the toilet entirely.
~ Seth Green
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Go ahead and eat all you want, but avoid excessively fatty foods, since one of these is going to tell your body to purge fats in a way that absolutely challenges normal sphincter control." "That's . . . not great." "It's a mess. Seriously, don't even think about trying to fart for the next eighteen hours. It's not a fart. You will regret it.
~ John Scalzi
at least a couple of these are going to make you feel ravenously hungry. Go ahead and eat all you want, but avoid excessively fatty foods, since one of these is going to tell your body to purge fats in a way that absolutely challenges normal sphincter control." "That's … not great." "It's a mess. Seriously, don't even think about trying to fart for the next eighteen hours. It's not a fart. You will regret it.
~ John Scalzi
Eructation of.
~ John Steinbeck
The smells of life and richness, of death and digestion, of decay and birth, burden the air.
~ John Steinbeck
enchilada in one's stomach
~ John Steinbeck
I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.
~ Marvin Gaye
He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare.
~ Marcel Proust
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
~ Unknown
The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.
~ Redd Foxx
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.
~ Catharine Beecher
Nutrition makes me puke.
~ Jimmy Piersall
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
~ E. M. Forster
Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.
~ Herman Melville
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
~ Agatha Christie
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
~ William Penn
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
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
~ John Dryden
Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.
~ Marvin Harris
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
Your body considers alcohol a toxin and will basically stop trying to digest food you ate to get rid of the alcohol and this can cause the food you ate throughout the day to be stored as fat.
~ Scott Herman
I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger
~ Richard Proenneke