#cabbage

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#cabbage #down #home #i #make

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#life

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#cabbage #did #diet #famous #i

I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#cabbage #child #cliched #cut #destroy

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way! ↗

— Richard Simmons

#cabbage #diet #does #drink #every

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooking #fragrance #humor #idealism #metaphors

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ↗

— Mark Twain

#college #college education #education #nothing

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#cabbage #familiar #head #large #man

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off. ↗

— Roger McGough

#good #i #know #me #off

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better #cabbage #concludes #idealist #make