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Quotes About Cabbage

stopping to exclaim at the beauty of the cabbage leaves in the moonlight
~ Virginia Woolf
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.
~ H. L. Mencken
IDEALIST. One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
~ H. L. Mencken
At the wedding, women served a dish of cabbage that had been shredded by wooden kraut cutters, mixed with ground pork and onion, wrapped in bread dough, and baked.
~ Timothy Egan
He made a noise like a pig swallowing half a cabbage
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I'll get home from work on Friday night and take out some beans and soak them. The next morning, I'll put them in a pot for soup, then just keep chopping, chopping, chopping – carrots and celery and cabbage – and in two or three hours, you have this wonderful, mellow soup that fills up the whole house with its aroma.
~ Lidia Bastianich
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
~ Henry L. Mencken
Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house with an incredible smell?
~ Paul Zindel
Thinly slicing even the bulkiest vegetables, like cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, or cabbage, then aggressively cooking them in a hot skillet and finishing with a shower of spices means they cook and develop flavor super quickly.
~ Chris Morocco
Kimchi. After repeatedly sampling ten of the sixty varieties of kimchi, the national pickle of Korea, kimchi has become my national pickle, too.
~ Unknown
My missus likes my steak and coleslaw. My coleslaw's not pure handmade, the cabbage will be ready to go but I'll add stuff to it.
~ Aaron Mooy
Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c'mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat?
~ Suzanne Somers
Shred some red cabbage or Chinese cabbage on your salad, add a little arugula or watercress, or use a bit of ground mustard seed for flavor.
~ Joel Fuhrman
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
~ Mark Twain
Pia was chopping up an enormous cabbage, a cabbage big as a basketball. The cabbage was of an extraordinary size. It was a big cabbage. "That's a big cabbage," Edward said. "Big," Pia said.
~ Donald Barthelme
The Initiate must be totally naked, to demonstrate that he is truly a human being and not something else in disguise like a cabbage or something.
~ Malaclypse the Younger
I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
~ Ellen Burstyn
In terms of antioxidant bang for your buck, açai berries get honorable mention, beating out other superstars, such as walnuts, apples, and cranberries. The bronze for best bargain, though, goes to cloves, the silver to cinnamon, and the gold for most antioxidants per dollar—according to a USDA database of common foods—goes to purple cabbage.24 Açai
~ Michael Greger
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
~ Unknown
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.
~ Unknown
That's obviously, isn't it?' she said. 'A hawk is always a hawk, except'- and here she raised on heavy eyebrow and gave a mysterious smile - 'except when the hawk is a cabbage.' 'What?' Ernest said, grinning and game and clearly perplexed. 'Exactly,' Gertrude said.
~ Paula McLain