(71 quotes found)
“Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.”
Chanakya
“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
W. H. Auden
“That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour”
William Shakespeare
“Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!”
“It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.”
Charles Darwin
“DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead --a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.”
Ambrose Bierce
“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
“For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.”
Casey Affleck
“A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.”