Cabbage Quotes

• 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 been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Nature, Thinking, Men

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• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Food, Inspiration

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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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

  Time, Kings, Shoes

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Night, Vegetables

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Food, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.25, 谷月社

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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

  Sports, Discipline, Would Be

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• I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Nature, Garden

  Essais bk. 1, ch. 20 (1580)

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• But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

  Edna Ferber

  Garden, Green, Weapons

  Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Inspiration, Useless

  Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' -
  a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rose, Common Sense, Abolish

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.250

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• The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.

  Cato the Younger

  Vegetables, Wish, Half

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• An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Laughter, Food

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• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Running, College

  A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

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• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Food, Vegetables

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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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

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Dumb

  Carl Curt Pfeiffer (1975). “Mental and Elemental Nutrients: A Physician's Guide to Nutrition and Health Care”, Keats Publishing

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• Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Holy, Fats

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The White Company”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.

  Publilius Syrus

  Peppers, Abundance, Plenty

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• Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.

  Rick DeMarinis

  Kings, Forever, Deeds

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• Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.

  Francois Rabelais

  Blessed, Men, Feet

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• I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

  Red Smith

  Cooking, Scent

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• Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

  John Haines

  Dream, Food, Yellow

  John Haines (1996). “The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems”

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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 it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Vegetables, Years

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• Always look on the bright side of life.

  Graham Chapman

  Positive Attitude, Positivity, Good As It Gets

  Graham Chapman (2001). “Monty Python's the life of Brian (of Nazareth)”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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• ....avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!" -Angela

  Christopher Paolini

  Looks, Sides, Eragon

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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

  Art, Butterfly, White

  Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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