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“Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.”

Four Food Cooking Plant Culinary Cabbage Thrice

Author:Francois Rabelais

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

Life Religion Food Rose Smell Libertarian Vegetables Cynical Idealism Soup Noticing Idealist Cuisine Cynic Cabbage Soup Kitchens

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

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

People Humor Funny History Laughing Cry Food Laughter Vegetables Cowboy Funny Inspirational Making People Laugh Onions Cabbage Funny Food Vegetable Garden Cowboy Wisdom

Author:Will Rogers

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

Men Wise Mankind Food Garden Familiar Kitchen Vegetables Cabbage Vegetable Garden

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”

“This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.”

Source: Jane Grigson's Fruit Book

“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.”

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Book:Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

Source: Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

“I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.”

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Author:S. J. Perelman

“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.”

World Dream This World Food Green Cooking Culinary Yellow Magnificence Cabbage

Book:The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems

Source: The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems