Famous quotes containing the words root and/or parsley:
“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“It has lately been drawn to your correspondent’s attention that, at social gatherings, she is not the human magnet she would be. Indeed, it turns out that as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, she ranks somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice- skate. It would appear, from the actions of the assembled guests, that she is about as hot company as a night nurse.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)