Quotes about Digestion
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
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
- Job 20:14
“Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?
- Matthew 15:17
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart. When a man hath confirmed his imagination to such an apprehension of grace and mercy as to be able, without bitterness, to swallow and digest daily sins, that man is at the very brink of turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, and being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
- John Owen
Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.
- Gregory of Nyssa
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
All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
- Ellen White
I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.
- Jane Goodall
Francis Bacon once remarked that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Reading a book analytically is chewing and digesting it.
- Mortimer Adler
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
- Anonymous
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