“It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.”
“I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce.""It’s a clever lettuce, then.""Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?""Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked."Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.”
“Lettuce is too Flat”
“I'd much rather be eating a bar of chocolate or even something healthy like a lettuce leaf alone at my desk than sitting through this silent, painful meal.”
“Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink”
“Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.”