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Letter "O" » onion
«Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep»
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Historian,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
at a time,
come off,
layer,
layered,
off,
off and on,
one at a time,
onion,
Onions,
on and off,
peel,
peeled,
peeling,
peels,
peel of,
peel off,
sometimes,
take time off,
The Onion,
time off,
weep
«We now feel we can cure the patient without his fully understanding what made him sick. We are no longer so interested in peeling the onion as in changing it.»
«Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it»
«The onion being eaten, yea though it be boyled, causeth head-ache, hurteth the eyes, and maketh a man dimme sighted, dulleth the senses, ingendreth windinesse, and provoketh overmuch sleepe, especially being eaten raw»
«Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry.»
Author: Ronni Lundy
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About:
Love
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Keywords:
commitment,
extraordinary,
learning process,
Learning to,
onion,
Onions,
process,
requires,
somewhat,
soup,
soups,
sustaining,
sustains,
The Onion,
The Process
«You're so wrapped up in layers, onion boy, you're afraid of your own feelings!»
«That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, It's cool, he's with me.»
Author: Mitch Hedberg
(
Comedian)
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Keywords:
Be Cool,
carrot,
carrots,
cool,
cool down,
cover,
cover for,
onion,
Onions,
onion rings,
ring,
stomach,
The Onion
«SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as, the Dalai Lama of Thibet; the Moogum of M'bwango; the temple of Apes in Ceylon; the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt; the Mufti of Moosh; the hair of the dog that bit Noah, etc.All things are either sacred or profane. The former to ecclesiasts bring gain; The latter to the devil appertain. --Dumbo Omohundro»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(
Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
adj,
ancient Egypt,
apes,
appertain,
appertained,
appertaining,
Ceylon,
crocodile,
crocodiles,
Dalai,
Dalai Lama,
dedicated,
Egypt,
etc.,
etc,
hair of the dog,
India,
inspiring,
Lama,
mufti,
Noah,
onion,
profane,
sacred cow,
solemn,
Temple of,
The Crocodile,
The Crocodiles,
The Dalai Lama,
The Onion,
The temple,
Thibet
«Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
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Keywords:
car,
cushion,
cushioned,
cushions,
improve,
onion,
Onions,
onion rings,
ringed,
rings,
ring out,
Ring The,
ring up,
rung,
The Car,
The Onion