(33 quotes found)
“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
“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
Carl Sandberg
“Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep”
Benjamin Franklin
“Next to that kid, we all look like onions.”
Dustin Hoffman
“Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.”
Charles Dudley Warner
“I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man’s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one’s self.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
