Cabbage/history

Famous quotes containing the words cabbage and/or history:

“All his happier dreams came true
A small old house, wife, daughter, son,
Grounds where plum and cabbage grew,
Poets and Wits about him drew;
“What then?”sang Plato’s ghost, “what then?””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)