“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
As quoted in You Must Remember This (1975) by Walter Wagner, p. 175
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“He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.”
Source: The Fall Into Time (1964), p. 178, first American edition (1970)
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