"Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear……" — John Haines

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• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was… — 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… — Lewis Carroll
• Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody… — 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… — John le Carre
• The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato… — Anthony Burgess
• Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage,… — 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… — Carl Pfeiffer
• The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of… — 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

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