Cucumbers Quotes

• Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Vinegar, Peppers

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 5 October 1773

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• Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Hands, Life Is Like, Next

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• We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

  Jane Elliott

  Country, Vegetables, Differences

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• Heaven is a homegrown cucumber

  Alys Fowler

  Heaven, Homegrown

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• He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

  Jonathan Swift

  Summer, War, Science

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Laputa, etc." ch. 5 (1726)

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• Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.

  Terry Pratchett

  Errors, Discworld, Please

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.218, Random House

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• As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Glasses, Hands

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• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  Yuliya Snigir

  Chess, Should

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• The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

  Jasper Fforde

  Food, Vegetables, Nuts

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

  Irena Chalmers

  Food, Cooking, Analysis

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• It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Water, Juice, Taste

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• I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Blue, Paris

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 29, 1991.

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• O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!
  O for an iceberg or two at control!
  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!
  O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!

  Rossiter Johnson

  Summer, Garden, July

  Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”

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• I have either a cucumber martini, gin martini, or a vodka martini. That's it. Simple.

  Robert De Niro

  Simple, Vodka, Martini

  Source: www.thenewpotato.com

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• HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Journey, Knives

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “All the Discworld's a Stage”, p.111, Oberon Books

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• The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Adversity, Needs, Path

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.111, Modern Library

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• July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

  Jean Hersey

  Sweet, Beach, Garden

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• More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

  Eric Alterman

  Hands, Worry, Reruns

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• Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the word-easy, easy-only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys-that's all. Start her!

  Herman Melville

  Strong, Boys, Sea

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.317, Velvet Element Books

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• So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I would only have salads. And then it got so crazy as to just eating like a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full

  Nicole Polizzi

  Crazy, School, Lunch

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• Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber When you peel it carefully.

  Robert Hass

  Sunset, Sky, Green

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• I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out. They sold their soul to the devil, and the devil is dill.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• I'm sorry, was that homophobic? No--I think it was, 'cause I hear that a lot. Dave, What?, You're talking about being gay. You probably secretly are gay. And I'm like listen voice in my head, I'm not! HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT? HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT? I know I wouldn't like it, other scarier voice in my head! 'Cause one time while making a sandwich, a cucumber went up my ass. Three times.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album by Dave Attell, 2003.

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• I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small elephant, but she loves her body and size. When we were filming in Africa, it was 110F. It was torturous. I drank a lot of water and ate cucumbers all the time, and underneath the fat suit I shed pounds - I couldn't help it.

  Jill Scott

  Agency, Play, Mma

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jill Scott, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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