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)

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)