Try to eat more vegetables; they are healthy. Have a look at this list of proverbs and quotes about vegetables.
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A cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins.
A cooked tomato is like a cooked oyster: ruined.Andre Simon
A dealer in onions is a good judge of scallions.
A louse in the cabbage is better than no meat at all.
A meat and potatoes person.This means someone who prefers plain and simple things.
A small pepper is hotter than a large pepper.
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.Gertrude Stein
A woman is like an artichoke, you must work hard to get to her heart.(unknown author)
Source: The Pink Panther, 2006
Quoted: Inspector Jacques Clouseau
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.Laurie Colwin
An okra tree does not grow taller than its master.This means that young persons, even with a higher education, can not surpass their elders.
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.Will Rogers
As cool as a cucumber.Calm, unruffled.
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.
Better to eat vegetables and fear no creditors, than eat duck and hide from them.
Cabbage: A vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.Ambrose Bierce
Carrot and stick.This refers to offering a combination of rewards (the carrot) and punishment (the stick) to induce behavior.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
Different men have different opinions; some prefer apples, some onions.
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.Miguel De Cervantes
Source: Don Quixote
Eat your vegetables. Brush your teeth. Sweat once in a while. Get plenty of rest. Don't smoke. Laugh more. There are certain tenets to health that are pretty commonsensical and that we all know we should practice routinely.David Perlmutter
England and the English. As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unlivable to them unless they have tea and puddings.George Orwell
Eternity makes room for a salty cucumber.
Fine words butter no parsnips.Action is better than talking.
For every bean full of weevils God supplies a blind grocer.
Garlic is as good as ten mothers.
Garlic is not only a flavor, it is the secret of happiness.
Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke.Thomas Nash
Growing your own tomatoes is the best way to devote three months of your life to saving $2.17(unknown author)
He fasted for a whole year and then broke his fast with an onion.
Heart with pepper, soul with garlic.
His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.John Leonard
Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes? Only two things that money can't buy. That's true love and home grown tomatoes.John Denver
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.Mae West
I speak of garlic, you reply about onions.
If there is no apple one eats a little carrot.
If you plant melons, you get melons; if you plant beans, you get beans.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.William Blake
Imagine Italian food without tomatoes, Greek food without eggplant, Thai and Indonesian foods without peanut sauce, curries without chilies, hamburgers without French fries or ketchup, African food without cassava.Bill Bryson
Source: At Home
Effect of the distribution of new world crops
It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.
It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.Lewis Grizzard
It's no use boiling your cabbage twice.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.
Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
Like a cucumber versus a durian.This refers to the struggle between the weak and the strong. The strong (i.e. the durian) will always win.
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.Oprah Winfrey
No matter if you eat a little or a lot of garlic, the smell is just as strong.
Of a bitter gourd use not even the seed.A warning against children of bad people.
One must be very suspicious of anyone who does not eat garlic.(unknown author)
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