Asparagus quotes
19 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres."
"Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes."
"With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire."
"(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries."
"Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance."
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"That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?"
"One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted."