Quotes with cabbage

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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
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

  Carol Shields
  American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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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.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• I want death to find me planting my cabbage

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

  Juvenal
  Roman poet
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• The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• kitchen-garden
• repetition
• warmed-up
• vegetable
• watching
• idealist

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