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Aug

Cabbage Quotes

   Posted by: gargi   in And Finally ...

An idealist :

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
- H.L. Mencken

This reminds me so much of the left front in India.

Brevity

The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent US Federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

(aside: given the number of words in the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagvad Gita, and the vedas - the mind boggles at the thought of cabbage regulation in India:)

On Death:

Cabbage twice cooked is death. - Greek Proverb.
I knew that our cook was trying to poison us:)

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Sameer
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Good ones!
Not just the quotes… your observations on them too! :)
Ambrose Bierce defined cabbage as “A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head.“

August 9th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
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