“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep”
Benjamin Franklin
“Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry.”
Ronni Lundy
“Give even an onion graciously”
Afghan Proverb
“An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”
Will Rogers
“Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.”
William Shakespeare
“Emperor? You old fake! / You're no Emperor. You're just an onion. / Now then, little Peer, I'm going to peel you.”
Henrik Ibsen