Man Dentition Quote by Rupert H. Wheldon

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Obsession is a pair of blinders, and Beaumont wore his tightly. He far overstated the role of gastric acid, ignoring the digestive contributions of…

— Mary Roach

“Stocks passed my e-mail along to Model Gut senior scientist Richard Faulks. Faulks was dismissive not only of extreme chewing, but also of the…

— Mary Roach

“Squatting upon the floor of the room, without any perceptible effort he passed into the hollow of his hand the contents of the rectum…

— Mary Roach

“Could thorough chewing lower the national debt? If saliva is full of bacteria, why do animals lick their wounds? Why don’t suicide bombers smuggle…

— Mary Roach

“In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear…

— Lynda Barry

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like…

— Lord Byron

“To chew and digest everything, however—that is the genuine swine-nature! Ever to say ye-a—that hath only the ass learnt, and those like it!”

— Anonymous

“Fletcher was the instigator of a fad for extremely thorough chewing. We are not talking about British Prime Minister William Gladstone’s thirty-two chews per…

— Mary Roach

I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject…

— Francois Arago

“Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it, the halal…

— Salman Rushdie

“Indigestion was designed by God to impose morality on stomachs." Our entire lives explained in one French novel.”

— Victor Hugo