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About
Onions: Quotes
Notable,
Quotable Onions
"We
remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers,
the melons, the leeks, the onions and the garlic; but now our
strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna
to look at."
-Numbers
(11:5-6)
"I
crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate
it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life for I have never
ceased to love the hearty flavor of onions."
-James
Beard, American cooking expert and author
"I
will not move my army without onions!"
-Ulysses
S. Grant
"It's
hard to imagine civilization without onions."
-Julia
Child
"The
onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables
and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It
can be said to have a soul."
-My
Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner
"Onion
skins very thin,
Mild winter coming in.
Onion skins very tough,
Coming winter very rough."
-old
English rhyme
"If
you hear an onion ring, answer it."
-Anonymous
"It's
probably illegal to make soups, stews and casseroles without plenty
of onions."
-Maggie
Waldron, American author and editor
"Life
is like an onion.
You peel it off one layer at a time;
And sometimes you weep."
-Carl
Sandburg, American poet
"Onions
can make even heirs and widows weep."
-Benjamin
Franklin
"Life
is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you
find there is nothing in it."
-James
Gibbons Huneker, American musician, critic
"For
this is every cook's opinion,
No savoury dish without an onion;
But lest your kissing should be spoiled,
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled."
-Jonathon
Swift, Irish satirist
"Take
care to chop the onion fine."
-Opening
line of Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
"Why
is it that the poet tells
So little of the sense of smell?
These are the odors I love well:
The
smell of coffee freshly ground;
Or rich plum pudding, holly crowned;
Or onions fried and deeply browned…"
-Christopher
Morley, poet
"It
was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions."
-The
reason the Queen of Hearts wants to behead the Seven-of-Spades
in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
"Mine
eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon."
-All's
Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare
"The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating,
and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself."
-George
Ellwanger, British food writer
"Banish
(the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its
presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish;
its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity,
and dinner to despair."
-Elizabeth
Robbins Pennell, American columnist
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