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  • Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963).
  • 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.

    Food   Vegetables   Years  
    Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press
  • The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

    Art   Butterfly   White  
    Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

    Russia   Soup   Shade  
  • Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot with T.V. preachers (many have minds made of cabbage) but it can also happen with political ideology. When you're young it's easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you're a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you're doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you're gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of this ideology. It's a big danger.

    USC Law Commencement Speech, genius.com. May 1, 2007.
  • A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.

  • What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

    Life   Views   Vegetables  
    Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company
  • I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

    Death   Nature   Garden  
    Essais bk. 1, ch. 20 (1580)
  • Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

    Fear   Stupid   Men  
    Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”
  • There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.

    Spring   Winter   Ice  
  • I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.

    Kids   Years   Cabbage  
    "Q&A: Logan Lerman Saves the Day (and D'Artagnan) in 'Musketeers'". Interview with Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. October 18, 2011.
  • The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.

    Believe   Gay   People  
    "Seriously... I’m Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.
  • Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

    Beatrix Potter (2012). “Peter Rabbit and Eleven Other Favorite Tales”, p.3, Courier Corporation
  • Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

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

    Garden   Green   Weapons  
    Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.19, Harper Collins
  • Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant.

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

    Moon   Night   Vegetables  
    Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

    Stupid   Believe   Ideas  
  • 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.

    Bed   Cabbage   Used  
    William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery”, p.191
  • 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

    Time   Kings   Shoes  
    Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)
  • I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!

    Hate   Kids   Kale  
  • Now, in this town, you have to putter over a thing, even the slightest, a month. The powers that evolved the cabbage apple-pie in the morning, and executed it in the evening, are here unknown quantities.

    Morning   Apples   Pie  
    Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”
  • 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 (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.250
  • ....avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!" -Angela

    Looks   Cabbage   Sides  
  • 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.

    Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press
  • He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.129, Xist Publishing
  • Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.

    Suicide   Dog   Baby  
    Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt
  • 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.

    Dream   Food   Yellow  
    John Haines (1996). “The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems”
  • So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

    Quoted in Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy (1825).
  • Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

    Cabbage   Lasts   Killing  
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