"He is useless on top of the ground;……" — Mark Twain

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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
• 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax… — Lewis Carroll
• He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. — Mark Twain
• 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
• 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
• Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence… — John Haines
• If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a… — Helen Dunmore
• I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. — Michel de Montaigne
• In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series… — Carl Sandburg
• Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup… — Groucho Marx

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