Cabbage Quote by Josh Billings Download Open image “Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.” — Josh Billings ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cabbage Doe Genius Intelligence Wells
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Its harly my dog A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. — Josh Billings 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
