Digestion Quotes

Quotations list about digestion, absorption and assimilation citing Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sydney Smith and George Herbert

  • Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

    — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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  • I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.

    — Sydney Smith
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  • 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
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  • If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

    — George Bernard Shaw
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood -- a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

    — E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
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  • 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.

    — Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

    — Thomas Fuller
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  • I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

    — Zona Gale
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  • Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -

    — Abraham Lincoln
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  • 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 Clark
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

    — Brian Ferneyhough
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  • 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
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  • 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
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