Quotes About Cabbage

The cabbage seems to have been unknown to the Hebrews. It is not mentioned in the Bible.' I love that – so French. Just the slightest note of disappointment with God; just the merest raised eyebrow and pursued Gallic lip.

Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.

This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.

Someone threw a cabbage at William Howard Taft. That didn't bother Taft. He quipped, I see that one of my adversaries has lost his head.

Increasing dietary consumption of the brassica vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, and Brussels sprouts, as well as allium vegetables such as onions, leeks, and garlic can all increase glutathione activity and offset the risk caused by this mutation.

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.

Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage.

Try and make yourself comfortable on the sofa," invited Reg, fussing around hospitably. "I don't know if you'll manage it. It always feels to me as if it's been stuffed with cabbage leaves and cutlery.

Personally, I'd sooner be a cabbage than a crackpot. Cabbages have the respect of their neighbours.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

The apartment was haunted by the ghost of long-departed cabbage.

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.

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

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.

Emperor Claudius, the story goes, once convoked the Senate to vote on whether corned beef and cabbage was the best of all possible dinner dishes.

Medicinally, cabbage eating was said to prevent drunkenness or at least to alleviate hangovers, both recurrent Roman problems; it was also the vegetable of choice for curing colic, paralysis, and the plague.

nails peeked from his shirt pocket. Kit hated seeing him so anxious about cabbage moths and sagging fences. "I'm sorry if helping Miss Lucy and me is taking you away from

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

A huge gust of cabbage blasted in Ben's face. It was like a great big slap of smell.

I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.

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

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

Aunt Zelda had written her note on special paper that she had made from pressed cabbage leaves.

For lunch, I was given a large piece of boiled meat on some tired cabbage leaves with prominent ribs and veins, filling the whole plate. I couldn't touch it. I felt that I had been served my own placenta.