Salad Quotes

“Rabbit food”

“Cow-dung for sallets”

“The better the salad, the worse the dinner.”

“He that sups upon salad, goes not to bed fasting.”

“A Sallet without wine is raw, unwholesome, dangerous.”

“It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is "soporific."”

“The shepherdess, who lives on salad,
To cool her youth, controuls her palate;”

“Wikipedia: Salad”

“The salad, for which, like everybody else I ever met, he had a special receipt of his own.”

“Claudere quæ cænas Lactuca solebat avorum,
Dic mihi cur nostras inchoat illa dapes?”

“A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out as good for nothing.”

“Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.”

“Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.”

“Four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt, and a madman to stir all up.”

“On twigs of hawthorn he regaled,
  On pippins’ russet peel;
And, when his juicy salads failed,
  Sliced carrot pleased him well.”

“Lettuce: It is of all herbs, the best and wholesomest for the hot seasons, for young men, and them that abound with choler, and also for the sanguine, and such as have hot stomachs.”

“Oh, green and glorious! Oh, herbaceous treat!
'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;
Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul,
And plunge his fingers in the salad-bowl!
Serenely full, the epicure would say,
Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.”

“Lettuce cooleth the heat of the stomacke, called the heart-burning; and helpeth it when it is troubled with choler: it quenches thirst and causeth sleepe. Lettuce maketh a pleasant sallad, being eaten raw with vinegar, oile, and a little salt: but if it be boiled it is sooner digested, and nourisheth more.”

“Take endive ... like love it is bitter;
  Take beet ... like love it is red;
Crisp leaf of the lettuce shall glitter,
  And cress from the rivulet's bed;
Anchovies foam-born, like the Lady
  Whose beauty has maddened this bard;
And olives, from groves that are shady;
  And eggs—boil 'em hard.”

“What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner—the nice, fresh green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much longer duration. The herbaceous plants which exist fit for food for man, are more numerous than may be imagined, and when we reflect how many of these, for want of knowledge, are allowed to rot and decompose in the fields and gardens, we ought, without loss of time, to make ourselves acquainted with their different natures and forms, and vary our food as the season changes.Although nature has provided all these different herbs and plants as food for man at various periods of the year, and perhaps at one period more abundant than another, when there are so many ready to assist in purifying and cleansing the blood, yet it would be advisable to grow some at other seasons, in order that the health may be properly nourished.”