Cabbagehead Quotes & Sayings

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively. — Evan Davis

Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances. — Margo MacDonald

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. — Edith Sitwell

I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead — Sarah MacLean

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer. — Gary D. Schmidt

This new world was already turning her into a cabbagehead, and she'd only been a part of it for an evening — Sarah MacLean

When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so. — Richard Griffiths

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people. — Paul Johnson

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous. — Jules Renard

Guests aren't trouble[...]they're a blessing. Having no one to cook for, now, that's a sadness. — Laini Taylor

Negative thoughts and emotions are what obstruct our most basic aspiration - to be happy and to avoid suffering. When we act under their influence, we become oblivious to the impact our actions have on others: they are thus the cause of our destructive behavior both toward others and to ourselves. — Dalai Lama XIV

I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten ... for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable. — John C. McGinley

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Poverty: The result of marriage. — Idries Shah

We are now as I wished we would be then. — John Green

we need to find every single jewel lost from Poseidon's trident, so Atlantis can rise to the surface and take her place in the world. — Alyssa Day

We must take down the carnies. I think we need to start a campaign to defeat their scamming ways. I never win the boardwalk basketball game. — Melissa Rauch

If a man smite you on one cheek, smash him down; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highest law. — Ragnar Redbeard