Famous quotes containing the words vegetable and/or matter:
“It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)