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Flatulence Quotes

“Let them fart fire and brimstone....I will not have a single case of scurvy on my hands, the sea-surgeon's shame, while there is cabbage to be culled.”
Stephen Maturin in Patrick O'Brian's 'Desolation Island' (1978)

“Do not move back and forth on your chair. Doing so gives the impression of constantly breaking, or trying to break, wind.”
Desiderius Erasmus (1466? - 1536)

“He that lives upon Hope, dies farting.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
‘Poor Richard's Almanac’

“Retain the wind by compressing the belly.”
Desiderius Erasmus (1466? - 1536)

“Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.”
Robert Hutchinson, Sir