Good Digestion Quotes:

A good digestion turneth all to health.

- George Herbert

source: The Temple 'The Church Porch' (1633)

topic: Ayurveda, Digestion, Good Digestion

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

source: The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

topic: Food, Men, Cooking, Good Digestion

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

- William Shakespeare

topic: Waiting, Digestion, Appetite, Good Digestion

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

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Good Cook, Good Digestion

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

- Samuel Butler

source: Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

topic: Healthy, Digestion, Conservative, Good Digestion

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

- Zona Gale

source: Zona Gale (1907). “The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre”

topic: Preparation, Digestion, Good Digestion

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 236

topic: Sweet, Food, Taste, Good Digestion

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

topic: Mistake, Digestion, Language, Good Digestion

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Success, Sleep, Digestion, Sound Doctrine, Sound Sleep

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

- Harriet Martineau

topic: Heart, Men, World, Good Digestion

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

- Oliver Heaviside

topic: Dinner, Should, Process, Good Digestion, Good Math

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Men, Thinking, Sick, Good Digestion, Sick Man

A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Blood, Skins, Next, Good Digestion

Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

topic: Morning, Digestion, Harsh, Clockwork Angel, William Herondale

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

- Walter Scott

source: Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The monastery”, p.251

topic: Mirth, Digestion, Meat, Good Digestion

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

- Oliver Heaviside

topic: Understanding, Dinner, Digestion, Should I, Good Digestion

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

topic: Giving, Digestion, Lord, Good Digestion

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

topic: Song, Heart, Years, Wet, Good Digestion

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

source: Anthony Trollope (2008). “Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.570, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Power, Looks, Crowds, Good Digestion

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

topic: Sports, Sex, Exercise, Circulation, Good Digestion

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.10, BookBaby

topic: Sex, Sleep, Animal, Good Sex, Pipe Smoking

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

- Brian Ferneyhough

topic: Pain, Reflection, Digestion, Good Digestion

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

- John Milton

source: John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

topic: Sleep, Light, Earth, Rosy, Good Digestion

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

- Eve Arnold

topic: Curiosity, Needs, Digestion, Good Digestion

His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

- John Milton

source: John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

topic: Sleep, Light, Digestion, Good Digestion

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

- Iris Murdoch

topic: Happiness, Reading, Thinking, Good Digestion

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

source: Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

topic: Hurt, Digestion, Eating, Good Digestion

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

topic: Writing, Library, Sake, Good Digestion

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.250, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Church, Digestion, Ill, Good Digestion

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

source: "Rebecca Romijn's Recipes for Success" by Amy Spencer, www.health.com. July 25, 2012.

topic: Good Digestion

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

topic: Sight, Preparation, Juice, Susceptible, Food Choices

Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

topic: Hate, Men, Needs, Good Digestion

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

source: Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

topic: Bored, Long, Soul, Good Digestion

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

source: Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.49, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Good Digestion

One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.

- Anthony Trollope

source: Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn”, p.281, e-artnow

topic: Clever, Mean, Should Have, Thick Skin, Good Digestion

The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.

- John Galsworthy

topic: Strong, Sex, Weekend, Strong Legs, Good Digestion