Boiled Vegetables

Famous quotes containing the words boiled and/or vegetables:

    You could not hate the cannibal they wrote
    Of, with the nostril bone-thrust, who could dote
    On boiled or roasted fellow thigh and throat.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)