Cabbage Quotes

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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
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce
'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
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else. — Bill Vaughan
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. — Mark Twain
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
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
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
Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever. — Rick DeMarinis
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
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
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know. — David McCullough
Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market. — Alfre Woodard
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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