Cabbage Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cabbage Familiar Gardening Wise
Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
“It’s as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence,” — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Im trying to cabbage in the caul of me, Im the best damn fool that you ever met! — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
“CRUCIFEROUS VEGETABLES Arugula Bok choy Broccoli Broccoli rabe Broccolini Brussels sprouts Cabbage Cauliflower Collards Horseradish Kale Kohlrabi Mustard greens Radishes Red cabbage Turnip greens” — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“Avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Sure I arn't a cabbage, that if you pull it out of the ground it must die.” — William Godwin Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
