Cabbages Quotes

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. - Cyrano De Bergerac

Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting. - Abraham Lincoln

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden. - Michel De Montaigne

Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it. - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. - Mark Twain

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages. - Robertson Davies