Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia…

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible.”

— Hanif Kureishi

Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether…

— Eliza Acton

Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic…

— William Alcott

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

— Anonymous

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides, and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

“I am persuaded that the knots would have proved indigestible, whatever you may urge to the contrary.”

— Beatrix Potter

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

— Keith Waterhouse

For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists'…

— Howell Raines

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Kindness and caring are ambrosia for the soul.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and…

— Charles Baudelaire