LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court. (_Vide supra._) - Ambrose Bierce
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
Wait here, Audrey. This is between me and the vegetable.
My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow. - Andrew Marvell
We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable. - William Deresiewicz
The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific inquiry hitherto entered on. - Lord Kelvin
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have may teachers, animal, vegetable and mineral - Jimmy Videle
Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture had long since done away with domestic beasts, while food was wholly vegetable or synthetic. - H.P. Lovecraft
Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared. - Preeti Simran Sethi
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom - H. G. Wells
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. - Will Rogers