(16 quotes found)
“Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last”
Juvenal
“Some prefer carrot while others like cabbage”
Irish Sayings
“Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other things”
Russian Proverb
“He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages”
Mark Twain
“Its no use boiling your cabbage twice.”
Irish Proverb
“CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Old Cabbage Head was used at the Manatee Create Co., which was located only about a quarter-mile from here.”
Jay Duke
“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.”
Samuel Foote
“Cabbage palms don't blow over if it's not a major hurricane. We have to be able to meet somewhere in the middle.”
Nathan Stout
“Corn beef and cabbage; we ate that quite a bit.”
Jason Rogers
