You just cannot reason with a turnip. It's fruitless.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

— Richard Burton

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

— Waverley Root

“I had expected the turnip metaphor to go over better, but it seems not everyone appreciates a clever philosophically grounded root vegetable reference.”

— Jessica Park

“A turnip would have grasped it quicker.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Get off me you dirty turnip!" "Dirty turnip? well, pardon me Signor Cabbage-Head!”

— Elle Newmark

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

— Frederick Marryat

“You can't get blood from a turnip!”

— Mom

I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!

— Dominic Cooper

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

— Anonymous

“You can't squeeze blood from a turnip.”

— Cheryl Strayed

In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

— Mark Twain

If there is no effort towards the relationship, it's like irrigating a fruitless trees.

— Nino Jobo Lucy

I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September…

— Franklin Pierce

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

— Napoleon Hill

“If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo