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Turnips Quotes

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

Saadi
Fowl, Hunger, Turnips

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

Frederick Marryat
Blood, Vegetables, Turnips
Frederick Marryat (1857). “Japhet, in Search of a Father ... A new edition”, p.13

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Terry Pratchett
Not Sure, Sane, Turnips
Terry Pratchett (2007). “Making Money”, Harper

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Jonathan Swift
Ears, Purses, Turnips
Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.349

In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

Mark Twain
Sex, Young, Turnips

These Atlantikoinonia. They’re human? (Acheron) What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Turnips, Humans

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Home, Might, Turnips
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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