Vegetable



s are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.

Quotes

 * They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas.
 * E. M. Forster,  (1905), Ch. 1


 * My vegetable Love should grow Vaster than Empires, and more slow.
 * Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress", ll. 11–12


 * See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again; All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath and die.)
 * Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (1733), ep. III, l. 15


 * Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots.
 * William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act II, scene 1, 2nd Carrier


 * Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.
 * William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 5, scene 1, Pistol


 * And now, folks, get a load of what our cameraman found in Ecuador. Vegetables on vacation! You've only seen this kind of thing after a party, but down in sunny Ecuador they see it any time—and no hangover to follow! Monster plants on the march! Say, now, that's given me a big idea! Maybe if we can educate our potatoes right we can fix it so they'll walk right into the pot.
 * John Wyndham,  (1951), Ch. 2