Quotes and Sayings About Cabbage
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Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market.
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Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
-- Antonio Lobo AntunesSource : "Knowledge of Hell (2008)". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.
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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 -
Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
-- Beatrix Potter -
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....avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!" -Angela
-- Christopher Paolini -
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
-- David McCullough -
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 LowellSource : James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.250
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At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
-- Jilly Cooper -
To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!
-- Micky Dolenz -
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
-- Red Smith -
Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.
-- William AlcottSource : William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery”, p.191
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I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes.
-- Jane Swisshelm