“These Atlantikoinonia. They’re human? (Acheron)
What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)”
Source: Acheron
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“No blood is from a turnip to be drawn.”
Act II., Scene III. — (Dormi).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 357.
Compare: Perlone Zipoli, Malmantile Racquistato, VIII, 75: Di rapa sangue non si puo cavare.
La Trinuzia (published 1549)
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 3 “United Hotcake Preferred” (p. 85)
“This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.”
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The diamond weighing 69.4 carats was gifted by Burton to Elizabeth Taylor on her fortieth birthday, which she later sold after her divorce for $5 million to fund a hospital in Botswana.
Arthur Young (1791), Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: : undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France, Volume 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=WLcFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA344, p. 344; Cited in: Jackson Spielvogel (2011), Western Civilization: Alternate Volume: Since 1300, p. 296
“Eat pickled turnips with yellow beans. It gives the taste of walnut.”
Last words of Jin Shengtan, "contained in a sealed letter to his family as he went to his execution, as a joke upon the magistrate", as quoted and reported by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Understanding (1960), p. 468