Cabbage Quotes
88 quotes by 78 authors
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
— Ambrose Bierce
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
— Lewis Carroll
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
— Bill Vaughan
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
— Mark Twain
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.
— John le Carre
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The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny…
— Anthony Burgess
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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's…
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
— Rick DeMarinis
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Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant.
— Carl Pfeiffer
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
— Robert Graves
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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
— David McCullough
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Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market.
— Alfre Woodard
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I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours
— Thom Yorke
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This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight…
— Jane Grigson
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Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable…
— Jane Grigson
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I got a Cabbage Patch doll from my mom when they were impossible to get. She later told me that she had to buy it…
— Jessica Capshaw
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I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times…
— S. J. Perelman
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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations…
— David McIntosh
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My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest,…
— D. H. Lawrence
Who Wrote These Cabbage Quotes
78 authors contributed a total of 88 Cabbage Quotes, led by these top contributors: