Maurice Mességué > Quotes

“Laughter aids the digestion. You can eat a huge stew with your schoolmates and digest it with no bother at all, whereas you can get indigestion eating a leaf of lettuce in boring company.”
― Maurice Messegue, Of People and Plants: The Autobiography of Europe's Most Celebrated Healer

“Peasants seldom write letters, and for my father the arrival of a letter was an important ceremony that entailed quite a ritual: the glass of wine for the postman, the close scrutiny of his name on the envelope—mistakes can happen, and you must never open a letter that isn’t addressed to you—and then the blade of the knife carefully inserted to liberate whatever the fates had in store.”
― Maurice Mességué, Of People and Plants: The Autobiography of Europe's Most Celebrated Healer