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Letter "O" » Onions
«Give even an onion graciously»
«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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Onions,
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The Onion,
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«Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it»
«Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.»
«Emperor? You old fake! / You're no Emperor. You're just an onion. / Now then, little Peer, I'm going to peel you.»
«And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? / We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: / But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.»
«Life is an onion and one peels it crying»
«How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.»
«An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.»
«Indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.»